trademark license

Mission Products v Tempnology – Supreme Court Declines to “Vaporize” Licensee’s Rights Under Rejected Trademark License Agreement

05/24/19

The Supreme Court this week resolved a long-standing open issue regarding the treatment of trademark license rights in bankruptcy proceedings. The Court ruled in favor of Mission Products, a licensee under a trademark license agreement that had been rejected in the chapter 11 case of Tempnology, the debtor-licensor, determining that the rejection constituted a breach of the agreement but did not rescind it.

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Eight Circuit follows Third Circuit's Exide in En Banc Review of Interstate Bakeries

06/22/14

Complex corporate transactions often include ancillary intellectual property licenses. For various reasons, when one company sells off part of its business operations it may not be able to transfer intellectual property rights to the acquiring entity. Usually, this is because the selling entity still needs to retain the IP rights for the operations it doesn't sell. The parties resolve the problem by licensing the IP to the divested portion of the business - usually these IP licenses are perpetual and fully paid.

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Supreme Court Denies Cert in NCP Marketing Case - Kennedy and Breyer Signal Preference for Actual Test

04/19/09

About a month ago the U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari in the NCP Marketing Case. A link to the denial is here.

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Supreme Court Denies Cert in NCP Marketing Case - Kennedy and Breyer Signal Preference for Actual Test

04/19/09

About a month ago the U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari in the NCP Marketing Case. A link to the denial is here.

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