• Posts Tagged ‘CFM Distributing’

    How Not to Manage a Brand

    by  • February 17, 2014 • trademark • 0 Comments

    I’m very interested in C.F.M. Distributing Co. v. Costantine, a case about a failed franchise and a son’s effort to revive it. The effort failed because there were so many former uncontrolled licensees that the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board held (as affirmed by the Federal Circuit) that the applicant was not the owner...

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    One Cannot Put a Would-Be Franchise Back Together

    by  • February 10, 2014 • trademark • 0 Comments

    I was all stoked because one of the most complicated trademark ownership cases I’ve ever seen, C.F.M. Distributing Co. v. Costantine, was appealed to the Federal Circuit. Super! Clarification from a Court of Appeals on trademark ownership! Sigh. Affirmed under Rule 36 without an opinion. Oral argument here. The text of this work is...

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