{"id":657,"date":"2026-10-26T13:43:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T17:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/?p=657"},"modified":"2026-10-26T13:43:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T17:43:20","slug":"trademark-litigation-in-the-federal-courts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/?p=657","title":{"rendered":"Trademark Litigation in the Federal Courts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This chart shows the disposition of Federal Trademark Cases over the past ten years.\u00a0 The claimant wins outright 28% of the time, but assuming satisfactory settlements, the claimant gets a favorable outcome 85% of the time.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"493\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/image.png 493w, https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/image-300x198.png 300w, https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/image-454x300.png 454w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 493px) 100vw, 493px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Drilling down on these numbers:\u00a0 About 15% of trademark cases end in a default.\u00a0 It is interesting to note that only about 1.3% of trademark cases actually go to trial, and of these the trademark owner wins 73% of the time, and the accused infringer wins 27% of the time.\u00a0 More trademark cases (2.1% of the total) are decided by summary judgment, with the trademark owner winning 57% of these, and the accused infringer winning 43% of these.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This chart shows the disposition of Federal Trademark Cases over the past ten years.\u00a0 The claimant wins outright 28% of the time, but assuming satisfactory settlements, the claimant gets a favorable outcome 85% of the time. Drilling down on these &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/?p=657\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-litigation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":659,"href":"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions\/659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}