Federal Circuit Sides With False Marking, False Advertising Defendant

(April 18, 2017, 9:52 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A North Carolina federal judge did not err in granting summary judgment to a Lanham Act and Patent Act defendant accused of marking its key-cutting machines as “patent pending,” the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled April 13 (Gordon Gravelle v. Kaba Ibco Corp., No. 16-2318, Fed. Cir., 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 6246)....