Romag Fasteners, Inc. v. Fossil, Inc.

Romag Fasteners, Inc. v. Fossil, Inc.
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued January 14, 2020
Decided April 23, 2020
Full case nameRomag Fasteners, Inc., Petitioner v. Fossil Group, Inc., fka Fossil, Inc., et al.
Docket no.18-1233
Citations590 U.S. ___ (more)
140 S. Ct. 1492; 206 L. Ed. 2d 672
Case history
Prior
  • 29 F. Supp. 3d 85 (D. Conn. 2014);
  • Affirmed, 817 F.3d 782 (Fed. Cir. 2016);
  • Cert. granted, judgment vacated, 137 S. Ct. 1373 (2017);
  • Vacated in part, 686 F. App'x 889 (Fed. Cir. 2017);
  • On remand, 2018 WL 3918185 (D. Conn. Aug. 16, 2018);
  • Appeal dismissed in part, 2019 WL 2677388 (Fed. Cir. Feb. 5, 2019);
  • Cert. granted, 139 S. Ct. 2778 (2019).
Holding
A plaintiff in a trademark infringement suit is not required to show that a defendant willfully infringed the plaintiff’s trademark as a precondition to a profits award.
Court membership
Chief Justice
John Roberts
Associate Justices
Clarence Thomas · Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Stephen Breyer · Samuel Alito
Sonia Sotomayor · Elena Kagan
Neil Gorsuch · Brett Kavanaugh
Case opinions
MajorityGorsuch, joined by unanimous
ConcurrenceAlito, joined by Breyer, Kagan
ConcurrenceSotomayor (in judgement)
Laws applied
Lanham Act

Romag Fasteners, Inc. v. Fossil, Inc., 590 U.S. ___ (2020), was a United States Supreme Court case related to trademark law under the Lanham Act. In the 9–0 decision on judgement, the Court ruled that a plaintiff in a trademark infringement lawsuit is not required to demonstrate that the defendant willfully infringed on their trademark to claim lost profit damages.

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