Legal Opinion
Belmora LLC v. Bayer Consumer Care AG
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided March 23, 2016No. 15-1335PublishedCited by 107 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Vacated and remanded by published ■ opinion. Judge AGEE - wrote the. opinion, in which Judge FLOYD and Judge THACKERjoined.
AGEE, Circuit Judge:
In this unfair competition case, we consider whether the Lanham Act permits the owner of a foreign trademark and its sister company to pursue false association, false advertising, and trademark cancellation claims against the owner of the same mark in the United States. Bayer Consumer Care AG (“BCC”) owns the trademark “FLANAX” in Mexico and has sold na-proxen sodium pain relievers under that mark in Mexico (and other parts of Latin America) since the…
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