Decided

No. 19-46

United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. v. Booking.com B.V.

from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

See other cases from the Fourth Circuit.

Docket Entries

JUDGMENT ISSUED.

Adjudged to be AFFIRMED. Ginsburg, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Roberts, C. J., and Thomas, Alito, Sotomayor, Kagan, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh, JJ., joined. Sotomayor, J., filed a concurring opinion. Breyer, J., filed a dissenting opinion.

Argued. For petitioners: Erica L. Ross, Assistant to the Solicitor General, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C. For respondent: Lisa S. Blatt, Washington, D. C.

RESCHEDULED FOR ARGUMENT on Monday, May 4, 2020.

Argument to be rescheduled for May 2020.

ORAL ARGUMENT POSTPONED.

Reply of petitioners United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. filed. (Distributed)

The record is located on PACER. Sealed record material from the USCA 4th Circuit electronically received.

Brief amicus curiae of Intellectual Property Owners Association filed. (Distributed)

Brief amicus curiae of The Association of Amicus Counsel filed. (Distributed)

Brief amici curiae of Survey Scholars and Consultants filed. (Distributed)

Brief amici curiae of Trademark and Internet Law Professors filed. (Distributed)

CIRCULATED

Record requested from the U.S.C.A. 4th Circuit.

Brief amicus curiae of The International Trademark Association filed. (Distributed)

Brief amicus curiae of Coalition of .Com Brand Owners filed. (Distributed)

Brief amicus curiae of Boston Patent Law Association filed. (Distributed)

Brief amici curiae of Salesforce.com, Inc., et al. filed. (Distributed)

Brief amicus curiae of New York Intellectual Property Law Association filed. (Distributed)

Brief amicus curiae of The Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago filed. (Distributed)

Brief amicus curiae of Internet Commerce Association filed. (Distributed)

Brief amici curiae of Professor Peter N. Golder, Ph.D., and other Marketing Academics filed. (Distributed)

Brief of respondent Booking.com B.V. filed.

SET FOR ARGUMENT on Monday, March 23, 2020.

Brief of petitioners United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. filed.

Joint appendix filed.

Motion to extend the time to file the briefs on the merits granted. The time to file the joint appendix and petitioners' brief on the merits is extended to and including January 6, 2020. The time to file respondent's brief on the merits is extended to and including February 12, 2020.

Motion for an extension of time to file the briefs on the merits filed.

Petition GRANTED.

DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/8/2019.

DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/1/2019.

Reply of petitioners United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. filed.

Brief of respondent Booking.com B.V. in opposition filed.

Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due August 7, 2019)

Parties

United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al., Petitioner, represented by Noel J. Francisco

Booking.com B.V., Respondent, represented by Lisa Schiavo Blatt

Booking.com B.V., Respondent, represented by Jonathan E. Moskin

Amici Curiae

American Intellectual Property Law Association, Amicus Curiae, represented by Craig Brian Whitney

Boston Patent Law Association, Amicus Curiae, represented by Erik Paul Belt

Coalition of .Com Brand Owners, Amicus Curiae, represented by Thad Chaloemtiarana

Electronic Frontier Foundation, Amicus Curiae, represented by Alexandra Helen Moss

Intellectual Property Owners Assoc, Amicus Curiae, represented by Eric Robert Moran

Internet Commerce Association, Amicus Curiae, represented by Megan L. Brown

New York Intellectual Property Law Association, Amicus Curiae, represented by Michael Carl Cannata

Professor Peter N. Golder, Ph.D., and other Marketing Academics, Amicus Curiae, represented by Richard Charles Henn Jr.

Salesforce.com, Inc. and The Home Depot, Inc., Amicus Curiae, represented by Thomas G. Hungar

Survey Scholars and Consultants, Amicus Curiae, represented by Mark David Harris

The Association of Amicus Counsel, Amicus Curiae, represented by Charles E. Miller

The Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago, Amicus Curiae, represented by Margaret M. Duncan

The International Trademark Association, Amicus Curiae, represented by Lawrence K. Nodine

Trademark and Internet Law Professors, Amicus Curiae, represented by John Michael Jakes

Trademark Scholars, Amicus Curiae, represented by Rebecca Leah Tushnet

 
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