Justices Consider How Far to Go in ‘Dewberry’ Trademark Case

The US Supreme Court appears primed to remand a $43 million trademark case on narrow grounds and spurn the parties’ push for broader clarity on questions of equity, damages, and corporate separateness following oral argument Wednesday.

Dewberry Group Inc. told the justices the Fourth Circuit wrongly based the award against it on profits of parties not named in the suit—affiliated companies also owned by Atlanta real estate developer John Dewberry that are legally separate entities. It argued the award for infringing Dewberry Engineers’ trademark violated bedock law of corporate separateness.

The justices Wednesday appeared uninterested in a broad ruling ruling ...