9th Circuit Upholds Dismissal Of Trademark Dispute Over ‘Sqrat’

Mealey's (April 26, 2018, 10:36 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — In an April 25 holding, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Fox Entertainment Group Inc., upholding a dismissal by a California federal judge of allegations that the film studio infringed trademark rights in a half-squirrel, half-rat character known as “Sqrat” (Ivy Silberstein and Silberstein & Silberstein LLC v. Fox Entertainment Group Inc., et al., No. 16-55318, 9th Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 10447)....