9th Circuit Upholds Reverse Passing Off Verdict, Judgment In Tire Row

Mealey's (July 26, 2018, 11:17 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — In a July 24 holding, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals found no error in a Washington federal judge’s post-trial judgment that a defendant is liable for reverse passing off under the Lanham Act because he passed off genuine industrial tiles made by a competitor as his own (OTR Wheel Engineering Inc. v. West Worldwide Services Inc., et al., Nos. 16-35897, -35936, 9th Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 20520)....