Nissho Iwai American Corp. v. The United States

FRIEDMAN, Circuit Judge.

Nissho Iwai American Corporation appeals, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1295(a)(5) (1982), from a judgment of the United States Court of International Trade that affirmed a United States Customs Service classification of children’s warm-up suits embroidered with a registered United States trademark as “ornamented.” Nissho-Iwai Am. Corp. v. United States, 664 F.Supp. 1438, 2 USPQ2d 1751 (Ct. Int’l Trade 1987). We affirm.

I

A. The issue in this case is the proper classification for Customs purposes of imported wearing apparel embroidered with a trademark of Nike, Inc. (Nike).

The…