{"id":2098,"date":"2015-02-24T16:02:58","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T21:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leasonellis.com\/?p=2098"},"modified":"2021-09-02T12:00:28","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T16:00:28","slug":"leason-ellis-prevails-in-virginia-district-court-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leasonellis.com\/zh-hans\/leason-ellis-prevails-in-virginia-district-court-action\/","title":{"rendered":"LEASON ELLIS PREVAILS IN VIRGINIA DISTRICT COURT ACTION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We represented Belmora, a Virginia pharmaceutical business, in its successful defense against a major pharmaceutical company seeking to cancel Belmora\u2019s registration and to enjoin its use of its flagship mark. \u00a0After an adverse decision before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, we were retained by Belmora to appeal to the Eastern District of Virginia. \u00a0In the <i>de novo<\/i> proceeding, the adverse party added claims &#8211; alleging \u00a0infringement of an unregistered mark and false advertising under the Lanham Act (as well as related state claims).\u00a0 In a case of first impression, Judge Gerald Bruce Lee dismissed all counts, holding that claimant had no standing to bring claims under the Lanham Act based solely on its alleged \u201csubstantial goodwill\u201d and\/or \u201cfame\u201d of its Mexican trademark, as long as it did not make use of its trademark in U.S. Commerce. \u00a0An article about the case which appeared in the Bloomberg BNA Pharmaceutical Law &amp; Industry Report is here: <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button btn_downloadPDF\" href=\"http:\/\/www.leasonellis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/belmora-v-bayer-decision-EDVA-Feb-15.pdf\">Download PDF<\/a>\u00a0 Reproduced with permission from BNA&#8217;s Patent, Trademark &amp; Copyright Journal, 89 PTCJ 971 (Feb. 13, 2015). \u00a0Copyright 2015 by The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button btn_downloadPDF\" href=\"tel:%28800-372-1033\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(800-372-1033<\/a>) \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button btn_downloadPDF\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bna.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.bna.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We represented Belmora, a <span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - 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