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Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith prevail as US Fifth Circuit upholds trademark injunction

By Melissa Ritti ( August 1, 2024, 20:38 GMT | Insight) -- In a per curiam ruling, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit said four individuals were properly enjoined from continuing to infringe the "Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith" trademark. The panel rejected calls by the defendants to apply the Rooker-Feldman doctrine, because a related state court action in Texas had not reached a final judgment at the time the federal lawsuit was filed by the law firm.A group that registered a domestic limited liability partnership in Texas under the same name as Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, their opposing counsel in a state court action, have failed to undo an injunction entered against them by a Texas federal judge....

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