| No. 19-46 | |
| Title: | United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al., Petitioners v. Booking.com B.V. |
| Docketed: | July 8, 2019 |
| Lower Ct: | United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit |
| Case Numbers: | (17-2458, 17-2459) |
| Decision Date: | February 4, 2019 |
| Rehearing Denied: | April 5, 2019 |
| Questions Presented | |
| Date | Proceedings and Orders |
| Jul 05 2019 | Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due August 7, 2019) |
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| Aug 07 2019 | Brief of respondent Booking.com B.V. in opposition filed. |
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| Aug 21 2019 | Reply of petitioners United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. filed. |
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| Oct 09 2019 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/1/2019. |
| Nov 04 2019 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/8/2019. |
| Nov 08 2019 | Petition GRANTED. |
| Dec 09 2019 | Motion for an extension of time to file the briefs on the merits filed. |
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| Dec 10 2019 | Motion to extend the time to file the briefs on the merits granted. The time to file the joint appendix and petitioners' brief on the merits is extended to and including January 6, 2020. The time to file respondent's brief on the merits is extended to and including February 12, 2020. |
| Jan 06 2020 | Joint appendix filed. |
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| Jan 06 2020 | Brief of petitioners United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. filed. |
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| Jan 13 2020 | Brief amici curiae of Trademark Scholars in support of neither party filed. |
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| Jan 13 2020 | Brief amicus curiae of American Intellectual Property Law Association in support of neither party filed. |
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| Jan 13 2020 | Brief amicus curiae of Electronic Frontier Foundation filed. |
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| Jan 31 2020 | SET FOR ARGUMENT on Monday, March 23, 2020. |
| Feb 12 2020 | Brief of respondent Booking.com B.V. filed. |
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| Feb 19 2020 | Record requested from the U.S.C.A. 4th Circuit. |
| Feb 19 2020 | CIRCULATED |
| Feb 19 2020 | Brief amici curiae of Trademark and Internet Law Professors filed. (Distributed) |
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| Feb 19 2020 | Brief amici curiae of Salesforce.com, Inc., et al. filed. (Distributed) |
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| Feb 19 2020 | Brief amici curiae of Survey Scholars and Consultants filed. (Distributed) |
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| Feb 19 2020 | Brief amicus curiae of The International Trademark Association filed. (Distributed) |
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| Feb 19 2020 | Brief amicus curiae of The Association of Amicus Counsel filed. (Distributed) |
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| Feb 19 2020 | Brief amicus curiae of Intellectual Property Owners Association filed. (Distributed) |
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| Feb 19 2020 | Brief amici curiae of Professor Peter N. Golder, Ph.D., and other Marketing Academics filed. (Distributed) |
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| Feb 19 2020 | Brief amicus curiae of Internet Commerce Association filed. (Distributed) |
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| Feb 19 2020 | Brief amicus curiae of Boston Patent Law Association filed. (Distributed) |
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| Feb 19 2020 | Brief amicus curiae of The Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago filed. (Distributed) |
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| Feb 19 2020 | Brief amicus curiae of New York Intellectual Property Law Association filed. (Distributed) |
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| Feb 19 2020 | Brief amicus curiae of Coalition of .Com Brand Owners filed. (Distributed) |
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| Feb 20 2020 | The record is located on PACER. Sealed record material from the USCA 4th Circuit electronically received. |
| Mar 13 2020 | Reply of petitioners United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. filed. (Distributed) |
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| Mar 16 2020 | ORAL ARGUMENT POSTPONED. |
| Apr 13 2020 | Argument to be rescheduled for May 2020. |
| Apr 15 2020 | RESCHEDULED FOR ARGUMENT on Monday, May 4, 2020. |
| May 04 2020 | Argued. For petitioners: Erica L. Ross, Assistant to the Solicitor General, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C. For respondent: Lisa S. Blatt, Washington, D. C. |
| Jun 30 2020 | Adjudged to be AFFIRMED. Ginsburg, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Roberts, C. J., and Thomas, Alito, Sotomayor, Kagan, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh, JJ., joined. Sotomayor, J., filed a concurring opinion. Breyer, J., filed a dissenting opinion. |
| Aug 03 2020 | JUDGMENT ISSUED. |
| NAME | ADDRESS | PHONE |
| Attorneys for Petitioners | ||
| Noel J. Francisco Counsel of Record | Solicitor General United States Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20530-0001 SupremeCtBriefs@USDOJ.gov | 202-514-2217 |
| Party name: United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. | ||
| Attorneys for Respondent | ||
| Lisa Schiavo Blatt Counsel of Record | Williams & Connolly LLP 725 12th Street, NW Washington, DC 20005 lblatt@wc.com | 202-434-5050 |
| Party name: Booking.com B.V. | ||
| Jonathan E. Moskin | Foley & Lardner LLP 90 Park Avenue New York, NY 10016-1314 jmoskin@foley.com | 212-682-7474 |
| Party name: Booking.com B.V. | ||
| Other | ||
| Erik Paul Belt Counsel of Record | McCarter & English, LLP 265 Franklin Street, 14th Floor Boston, MA 02110 ebelt@mccarter.com | 617-449-6500 |
| Party name: Boston Patent Law Association | ||
| Megan L. Brown Counsel of Record | Wiley Rein LLP 1776 K Street NW Washington, DC 20006 MBrown@wiley.law | (202) 719-7000 |
| Party name: Internet Commerce Association | ||
| Michael Carl Cannata Counsel of Record | Rivkin Radler, LLP 926 RXR Plaza Uniondale, NY 11556 michael.cannata@rivkin.com | 516-357-3000 |
| Party name: New York Intellectual Property Law Association | ||
| Thad Chaloemtiarana Counsel of Record | Pattishall, McAuliffe, Newbury, Hillard and Geraldson, LLP 200 S. Wacker Drive, Suite 2900 Chicago, IL 60606-5896 tc@pattishall.com | 3125548000 |
| Party name: Coalition of .Com Brand Owners | ||
| Margaret M. Duncan Counsel of Record | Loyola University Chicago School of Law 25 E Pearson Street Chicago, IL 60611 mduncan@luc.edu | 312 915 7120 |
| Party name: The Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago | ||
| Mark David Harris Counsel of Record | Proskauer Rose LLP Eleven Times Square New York, NY 10036 mharris@proskauer.com | 212-969-3530 |
| Party name: Survey Scholars and Consultants | ||
| Richard Charles Henn Jr. Counsel of Record | Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP 1100 Peachtree Street Suite 2800 Atlanta, GA 30309 chenn@kilpatricktownsend.com | 404-815-6572 |
| Party name: Professor Peter N. Golder, Ph.D., and other Marketing Academics | ||
| Thomas G. Hungar Counsel of Record | Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP 1050 Connecticut Ave. NW Washington, DC 20036 thungar@gibsondunn.com | 2029558500 |
| Party name: Salesforce.com, Inc. and The Home Depot, Inc. | ||
| John Michael Jakes Counsel of Record | Finnegan, Henderson, et al. 901 New York Avenue, N.W. Washington, DC 20001-4413 mike.jakes@finnegan.com | 202 408 4045 |
| Party name: Trademark and Internet Law Professors | ||
| Charles E. Miller Counsel of Record | Leichtman Law PLLC 228 East 45th Street New York, NY 10017 charles.miller@cmilleriplaw.com | 2124195210 |
| Party name: The Association of Amicus Counsel | ||
| Eric Robert Moran Counsel of Record | McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP 300 South Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 moran@mbhb.com | (312) 913-0001 |
| Party name: Intellectual Property Owners Assoc | ||
| Alexandra Helen Moss Counsel of Record | Electronic Frontier Foundation 815 Eddy Street San Francisco, CA 94109 alex@eff.org | 4154369333 |
| Party name: Electronic Frontier Foundation | ||
| Lawrence K. Nodine Counsel of Record | Ballard Spahr, LLP 999 Peachtree St., Suite 1000 Atlanta, GA 30309 nodinel@ballardspahr.com | (678) 420-9422 |
| Party name: The International Trademark Association | ||
| Rebecca Leah Tushnet Counsel of Record | Harvard Law School 1575 Massachusetts Ave. Hauser 520 Cambridge, MA 02138 rtushnet@law.harvard.edu | 703-593-6759 |
| Party name: Trademark Scholars | ||
| Craig Brian Whitney Counsel of Record | Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz P.C. 28 Liberty Street New York, NY 10005 cwhitney@fkks.com | 212-826-5583 |
| Party name: American Intellectual Property Law Association | ||