Nationwide Van Lines, Inc. v. Transworld Movers Inc.

3 Citing cases

  1. Tuuci Worldwide, LLC v. S. Frankford & Sons

    23-20615-CIV-ALTONAGA/Damian (S.D. Fla. Aug. 15, 2023)   Cited 2 times

    To establish infringement of an unregistered trademark, a plaintiff also must allege that the identifying mark “(1) is inherently distinctive or (2) has acquired distinctiveness through secondary meaning.” Nationwide Van Lines, Inc. v. Transworld Movers Inc., 853 Fed.Appx. 604, 606 (11th Cir. 2021) (quotation marks and citation omitted). The legal standards for Florida, New York, and New Jersey common law claims of trademark infringement are identical to those for a federal trademark infringement claim.

  2. Sternbaum v. The Refinery Lab, LLC

    22-cv-22002-BLOOM/Otazo-Reyes (S.D. Fla. Nov. 7, 2022)

    Fed.R.Evid. 201(b)(2), 201(d); see also Nationwide Van Lines, Inc. v. Transworld Movers Inc., 853 Fed.Appx. 604, 606 (11th Cir. 2021) (“Taking judicial notice of a public record from the registry of the United States Patent and Trademark Office ‘did not transform [the] motion to dismiss into a motion for summary judgment.'” (alteration in original))

  3. In Dime We Tr. v. Armadillo Distribution Enters.

    8:21-cv-1967-SDM-AAS (M.D. Fla. Aug. 10, 2022)

    A protectable design requires evidence of “the nature and extent of advertising and promotion; the efforts of the business to create in the public's mind an association between the mark and the business; and the extent to which the public actually identifies the name with the business.” Nationwide Van Lines, Inc. v. Transworld Movers, Inc., 853 Fed.Appx. 604, 606 (11th Cir. 2021). The Trust failed to make this showing.