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Article: Fourth Circuit Construes Lanham Act to Provide Enhance Scope of Trademark Protection to Foreign Businesses.(U.S. International Bancorp, LLC v. Societe des Bais de Mers et du Cercle des Etrangers a Monaco)
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- Mondaq Business Briefing
- Article date:
- July 16, 2003
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The U. S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, over a spirited dissent, affirmed the district court's grant of summary judgment of trademark infringement and interpreted the "use in commerce" requirement of the Lanham Act to include services rendered solely outside of the United States, so long as those services were advertised and provided to citizens of the U.S. International Bancorp, LLC v. Societe des Bais de Mers et du Cercle des Etrangers a Monaco, Case No. 02-1364 (4th Cir. May 19, 2003).
The appellee, Societe des Bais de Mers et du Cercle des Etrangers a Monaco (SBM), owns and operates casino facilities in Monte Carlo, Monaco in connection with the ...