A clearly written quality control provision paved the way for a disaster relief organization’s victory over a former trademark licensee in the Second Circuit.
Team Rubicon Inc. convinced the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit that it would suffer irreparable harm without a preliminary injunction against Team Rubicon Global Inc.
Team Rubicon terminated the right to use its trademarks by using protocols laid out in a licensing agreement with Rubicon Global after Rubicon Global allegedly failed to satisfactorily address sexual assault allegations against its sister organizations’ CEOs, the court said.
Quality control provisions allow a trademark owner to ...