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Paule McKenna v. Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., et al.
Paid petition · Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, No. B304256, B310814 · judgment February 15, 2023
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Question presented
Does the Lanham Act properly prohibit the unauthorized use of a celebrity’s persona advertising third party brands with logos in a commercial motion picture as a trademark infringement?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
David Zarmi
Zarmi Law
For respondent
Louis P. Petrich
Ballard Spahr LLP
Case
Subject area
Economic Activity (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Linked docket
23A46
Order
Order list, October 10, 2023 · Certiorari denied
Proceedings
- Oct 10 2023Petition DENIED.
- Sep 20 2023DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/6/2023.
- Sep 14 2023Waiver of right of respondent Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., et al. to respond filed.
- Sep 05 2023Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 12, 2023)
- Jul 20 2023Application (23A46) granted by Justice Kagan extending the time to file until September 5, 2023.
- Jul 14 2023Application (23A46) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from July 25, 2023 to September 5, 2023, submitted to Justice Kagan.