| No. 22-148 | |
| Title: | Jack Daniel's Properties, Inc., Petitioner v. VIP Products LLC |
| Docketed: | August 17, 2022 |
| Lower Ct: | United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit |
| Case Numbers: | (21-16969) |
| Decision Date: | March 18, 2022 |
| Rehearing Denied: | May 10, 2022 |
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| Date | Proceedings and Orders |
| Aug 05 2022 | Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 16, 2022) |
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| Sep 08 2022 | Motion to extend the time to file a response from September 16, 2022 to October 17, 2022, submitted to The Clerk. |
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| Sep 09 2022 | Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including October 17, 2022. |
| Sep 16 2022 | Brief amicus curiae of American Intellectual Property Law Association filed. |
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| Sep 16 2022 | Brief amicus curiae of Campbell Soup Company filed. |
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| Sep 16 2022 | Brief amicus curiae of Constellation Brands, Inc. filed. |
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| Sep 16 2022 | Brief amici curiae of American Craft Spirits Association, et al. filed. |
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| Sep 16 2022 | Brief amicus curiae of the International Trademark Association filed. |
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| Sep 16 2022 | Brief amicus curiae of Levi Strauss & Co. and Patagonia Inc. filed. |
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| Oct 17 2022 | Brief of respondent VIP Products LLC in opposition filed. |
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| Nov 01 2022 | Reply of petitioner Jack Daniel's Properties, Inc. filed. (Distributed) |
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| Nov 02 2022 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/18/2022. |
| Nov 21 2022 | Petition GRANTED. |
| Nov 28 2022 | Motion for an extension of time to file the briefs on the merits filed. |
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| Dec 02 2022 | Blanket Consent filed by Petitioner, Jack Daniel's Properties, Inc. |
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| Dec 06 2022 | Motion to extend the time to file the briefs on the merits granted. The time to file the joint appendix and petitioner's brief on the merits is extended to and including January 11, 2023. The time to file respondent's brief on the merits is extended to and including February 16, 2023. |
| Jan 11 2023 | Brief of petitioner Jack Daniel's Properties, Inc. filed. |
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| Jan 11 2023 | Joint appendix filed. (Statement of costs filed) |
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| Jan 18 2023 | Brief amicus curiae of NIKE, Inc. filed. |
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| Jan 18 2023 | Brief amici curiae of American Craft Spirits Association, et al. filed. |
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| Jan 18 2023 | Brief amicus curiae of Intellectual Property Owners Association filed. |
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| Jan 18 2023 | Brief amicus curiae of United States filed. |
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| Jan 18 2023 | Brief amici curiae of Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America, et al. filed. |
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| Jan 18 2023 | Brief amicus curiae of Motion Picture Association, Inc. in support of neither party filed. |
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| Jan 18 2023 | Brief amici curiae of Intellectual Property Professors, et al. in support of neither party filed. |
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| Jan 18 2023 | Brief amici curiae of Scholars, Former Judges, and Former Government Officials filed. |
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| Jan 18 2023 | Brief amicus curiae of The International Trademark Association in support of neither party filed. |
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| Jan 18 2023 | Brief amicus curiae of Campari America LLC filed. |
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| Jan 18 2023 | Brief amicus curiae of New York Intellectual Property Law Association in support of neither party filed. |
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| Jan 18 2023 | Brief amicus curiae of Constellation Brands, Inc filed. |
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| Jan 18 2023 | Brief amici curiae of Levi Strauss & Co., et al. filed. |
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| Jan 18 2023 | Brief amicus curiae of Campbell Soup Company filed. |
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| Jan 18 2023 | Brief amicus curiae of American Intellectual Property Law Association filed. |
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| Jan 18 2023 | Brief amici curiae of American Apparel & Footwear Association, et al. filed. |
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| Jan 31 2023 | SET FOR ARGUMENT on Wednesday, March 22, 2023. |
| Feb 03 2023 | Record requested from the U.S.C.A. for the Ninth Circuit. |
| Feb 03 2023 | All records from the USCA-9th Circuit are available on PACER. Sealed records from the USDC-Arizona were transmitted electronically. |
| Feb 13 2023 | CIRCULATED |
| Feb 16 2023 | Brief of respondent VIP Products LLC filed. (Distributed) |
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| Feb 20 2023 | Motion for Leave to File One Packet of Crayola Colored Pencils of MSCHF Product Studio, Inc. not accepted for filing. (February 28, 2023) |
| Feb 21 2023 | Motion of the Solicitor General for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae, for divided argument, and for enlargement of time for oral argument filed. |
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| Feb 22 2023 | Brief amicus curiae of Professor Andrew C. Michaels filed. (Distributed) |
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| Feb 22 2023 | Brief amici curiae of Dan McCall, et al. filed. (Distributed) |
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| Feb 23 2023 | Brief amici curiae of Authors Alliance and ComicMix filed. (Distributed) |
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| Feb 23 2023 | Brief amicus curiae of Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression filed. (Distributed) |
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| Feb 23 2023 | Brief amici curiae of 30 Trademark Law Professors filed. (Distributed) |
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| Feb 23 2023 | Brief amicus curiae of Electronic Frontier Foundation filed. (Distributed) |
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| Feb 23 2023 | Amicus brief of MSCHF Product Studio, Inc. not accepted for filing. (February 28, 2023--Corrected brief and PDF to be submitted.) |
| Feb 23 2023 | Motion of Motion Picture Association, Inc. for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae, for divided argument, and for enlargement of time for oral argument filed. |
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| Feb 23 2023 | Brief amici curiae of First Amendment Professors filed. (Distributed)(Mar. 2, 2023) |
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| Feb 23 2023 | Brief amicus curiae of MSCHF Product Studio, Inc. filed.(Mar.6, 2023) (Distributed) |
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| Feb 27 2023 | Opposition to motion of Motion Picture Association, Inc. filed by petitioner. |
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| Mar 06 2023 | Motion of the Solicitor General for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae, for divided argument, and for enlargement of time for oral argument GRANTED. |
| Mar 06 2023 | Motion of Motion Picture Association, Inc. for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae, for divided argument, and for enlargement of time for oral argument DENIED. |
| Mar 10 2023 | Reply of petitioner Jack Daniel's Properties, Inc. filed. (Distributed) |
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| Mar 22 2023 | Argued. For petitioner: Lisa S. Blatt, Washington, D. C.; and Matthew Guarnieri, Assistant to the Solicitor General, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C. (for United States, as amicus curiae.) For respondent: Bennett E. Cooper, Phoenix, Ariz. |
| Jun 08 2023 | Judgment VACATED and case REMANDED. Kagan, J., delivered the opinion for a unanimous Court. Sotomayor, J., filed a concurring opinion, in which Alito, J., joined. Gorsuch, J., filed a concurring opinion, in which Thomas and Barrett, JJ., joined. |
| Jul 10 2023 | Judgment issued. |
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| NAME | ADDRESS | PHONE |
| Attorneys for Petitioner | ||
| Lisa Schiavo Blatt Counsel of Record | Williams & Connolly LLP 680 Maine Avenue SW Washington, DC 20024 lblatt@wc.com | 202-434-5050 |
| Party name: Jack Daniel's Properties, Inc. | ||
| Attorneys for Respondent | ||
| Bennett Evan Cooper Counsel of Record | Dickinson Wright PLLC 1850 N. Central Ave., Ste. 1400 Phoenix, AZ 85004 bcooper@dickinsonwright.com | 6022855044 |
| Party name: VIP Products LLC | ||
| Other | ||
| Megan Kathleen Bannigan Counsel of Record | Debevoise & Plimpton LLP 66 Hudson Boulevard New York, NY 10001 MKBANNIGAN@DEBEVOISE.COM | (212) 909-6000 |
| Party name: Intellectual Property Professors and Adjunct Professors | ||
| William G. Barber Counsel of Record | Pirkey Barber PLLC 1801 E. 6th Street Suite 300 Austin, TX 78702 bbarber@pirkeybarber.com | (512) 482-5223 |
| Party name: American Intellectual Property Law Association | ||
| H. Christopher Bartolomucci Counsel of Record | Schaerr | Jaffe LLP 1717 K Street NW Suite 900 Washington, DC 20006 cbartolomucci@schaerr-jaffe.com | 202-787-1060 |
| Party name: Campbell Soup Company | ||
| Christopher Theodore Bavitz Counsel of Record | Cyberlaw Clinic, Harvard Law School 1557 Massachusetts Ave 4th Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 CBAVITZ@LAW.HARVARD.EDU | 6173849125 |
| Party name: Authors Alliance and ComicMix | ||
| John Fredrick Belcaster | MSCHF Product Studio, Inc 62 Bayard Street Brooklyn, NY 11222 JBELCASTER@GMAIL.COM | 3128410008 |
| Party name: MSCHF Product Studio, Inc. | ||
| Edward Tuck Colbert Counsel of Record | Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP 2200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20037 ecolbert@huntonak.com | 2026623010 |
| Party name: Constellation Brands, Inc | ||
| Gregory George Garre Counsel of Record | Latham & Watkins LLP 555 Eleventh Street, NW Suite 1000 Washington, DC 20004 GREGORY.GARRE@LW.COM | 202-637-2207 |
| Party name: Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America, et al. | ||
| Gregory S. Gilchrist Counsel of Record | Verso Law Group LLP 209 Kearny St., 3rd Floor San Francisco, CA 94108 greg.gilchrist@versolaw.com | 415-534-0495 |
| Party name: Levi Strauss & Co. and Patagonia Inc. | ||
| Adam Wolff Hofmann Counsel of Record | Hanson Bridgett LLP 425 Market Street, 26th Floor San Francisco, CA 94105 AHOFMANN@HANSONBRIDGETT.COM | 415-777-3200 |
| Party name: Scholars, Former Judges, and Former Government Officials | ||
| Steffen Nathanael Johnson Counsel of Record | Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati 1700 K Street, NW, Fifth Floor Washington, DC 20006 sjohnson@wsgr.com | (202) 973-8888 |
| Party name: American Craft Spirits Association, American Distilled Spirits Alliance, The Beer Institute, The Brewers Association, Distilled Spirits Council of the United States, and the Wine Institute | ||
| Susan J. Kohlmann Counsel of Record | Jenner & Block LLP 1155 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10036 SKOHLMANN@JENNER.COM | 212-891-1690 |
| Party name: Motion Picture Association, Inc. | ||
| Paul Alan Levy Counsel of Record | Public Citizen Litigation Group 1600 20th Street NW Washington, DC 20009 PLEVY@CITIZEN.ORG | (202) 5887725 |
| Party name: Dan McCall, Sky Shatz, and Don Stewart | ||
| Phillip Robert Malone Counsel of Record | Juelsgaard IP and Innovation Clinic Mills Legal Clinic at Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way Stanford, CA 94305 PMALONE@LAW.STANFORD.EDU | 650-725-6369 |
| Party name: Trademark Law Professors | ||
| Corynne McSherry Counsel of Record | Electronic Frontier Foundation 815 Eddy Street San Francisco, CA 94109 CORYNNE@EFF.ORG | 415-436-9333 |
| Party name: Electronic Frontier Foundation | ||
| Andrew Charles Michaels Counsel of Record | University of Houston Law Center 4170 Martin Luther King Blvd. Houston, TX 77204 ACMICHAELS@UH.EDU | (314) 323-2201 |
| Party name: Professor Andrew C. Michaels | ||
| Eric Robert Moran Counsel of Record | McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP 300 South Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 MORAN@MBHB.COM | 3129133302 |
| Party name: Intellectual Property Owners Association | ||
| John Paul O'Herron Counsel of Record | ThompsonMcMullan, P.C. 100 Shockoe Slip, Third Floor Richmond, VA 23219 joherron@t-mlaw.com | 8046986253 |
| Party name: American Apparel & Footwear Association, Footwear Distributors & Retailers of America, Council of Fashion Designers of America, and The Accessories Council | ||
| Stanley Joseph Panikowski III Counsel of Record | DLA Piper LLP (US) 401 B Street, Suite 1700 San Diego, CA 92101 stanley.panikowski@us.dlapiper.com | 619-699-2643 |
| Party name: NIKE, Inc. | ||
| William Daniel Patterson Counsel of Record | Swanson, Martin and Bell, LLP 330 N. Wabash, Suite 3300 Chicago, IL 60611 WPATTERSON@SMBTRIALS.COM | 3123218445 |
| Party name: MSCHF PRODUCT STUDIO, INC | ||
| Elizabeth B. Prelogar | 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 | ||
| Robert Joseph Rando Counsel of Record | Greenspoon Marder LLP 590 Madison Avenue 18th Floor New York, NY 10022 ROBERT.RANDO@GMLAW.COM | 2125245006 |
| Party name: New York Intellectual Property Law Association | ||
| Abigail Eden Smith Counsel of Record | Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression 510 Walnut Street Suite 1250 Philadelphia, PA 19106 ASMITH@BECKETLAW.ORG | 2157173473 |
| Party name: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression | ||
| Vijay Kumar Toke Counsel of Record | Rimon P.C. 423 Washington Street Suite 600 San Francisco, CA 94111 vijay.toke@rimonlaw.com | 415-683-5472 |
| 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: First Amendment Professors | ||
| Seth P. Waxman Counsel of Record | Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP 2100 Pennsylvania Ave, NW Washington, DC 20037 SETH.WAXMAN@WILMERHALE.COM | 202-663-6000 |
| Party name: Campari America LLC | ||