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Foreign trademark litigants demonstrate staying power in US courts

By Melissa Ritti ( June 5, 2025, 16:03 GMT | Comment) -- Protracted trademark litigation between competing sesame oil makers that spawned multiple appeals and an unsuccessful petition for US Supreme Court review could finally go to trial later this year. A California federal judge this week denied both sides summary judgment, clearing a path for a jury to decide in September whether India’s V.V.V. & Sons Edible Oils Limited slept on its rights to assert ownership of “IDHAYAM” in the US and whether New Jersey-based Meenakshi Overseas LLC obtained its IDHAYAM trademarks by fraud. Only a handful of active trademark cases have lasted longer in the US. Notably, among them, several involve a foreign litigant.A longstanding legal fight over the right to use “IDHAYAM” in connection with sesame oil in the US might soon head to trial for the first time, over a decade after it was filed....

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