Foreign Firms Ask High Court To Clarify Extraterritorial Application Of Lanham Act

Mealey's (February 3, 2022, 7:49 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A group of parties from Germany and Austria, which received an adverse judgment in a trademark infringement suit, filed a petition for certiorari in the U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 21, arguing that the 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals wrongly applied the Lanham Act extraterritorially on the basis that purported infringing activities, which occurred outside of the United States, affected U.S. commerce....