Legal Opinion
East Iowa Plastics, Inc. v. PI, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided August 11, 2016No. 15-2757PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KELLY, Circuit Judge.
This trademark case involves a challenge to the district court’s award of attorney’s fees to the plaintiff. We find that the district court lacked jurisdiction to cancel the defendant’s federal trademark registrations, and that as a result, the plaintiff was not entitled to attorney’s fees. 1
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The history of this case begins not with the parties, but with a company called KenTeeh, which was the owner of the “PAKSTER” trademark in the late 1990s. KenTeeh used the mark in connection with the molded plastic goods it manufactured for use in the egg and poultry industries. Two…
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