A case originating in the Southern District of Florida called Allied Lonestar v. Lonestar Distillery recently found itself before the Fifth Circuit. The dispute was over the alleged trademark abandonment of Allied’s Cowboy Little Barrel Whiskey, and whether Lonestar subsidiary Garrison Brothers infringed by selling its Cowboy Bourbon. The evidence Allied presented as proof (pun unintended) of using the mark…

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In Frederick L. Allen; Nautilus Productions, LLC v. Roy A. Cooper, III, Governor of North Carolina, the shipwreck of the infamous pirate ship Queen Anne’s Revenge failed to deliver intellectual property riches its explorers had expected.    The Queen Anne’s Revenge famously was run aground off the coast of North Carolina in 1717 — some say intentionally — by Edward…

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