Mealey's (December 7, 2015, 10:59 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — An appellate court improperly based its findings on the use of paw prints as trademarks for clothing in the marketplace, and the resulting weakness of a trademark, upon Internet printouts of registrations, the trademark owner argues in a petition filed Nov. 17 with the U.S. Supreme Court (New Millennium Sports S.L.U. v. Jack Wolfskin Ausrustung Fur Draussen GmbH & Co. KGAA, No. 15-660, U.S. Sup.).

(Petition for writ of certiorari available. Document #78-151214-001B.)

Although the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board correctly found that...