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Intellectual Property

Apr. 22, 2015

Carlo F. Van den Bosch

Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP Costa Mesa Trademark


Van den Bosch recently took a trademark case as high as it could go: the U.S. Supreme Court. And in January, he won.


It involved two companies that each had the same word in their title: Hana Financial Inc. and Hana Bank.


The former accused his client, Hana Bank - one of Korea's biggest financial institutions - of improperly using its mark in the U.S. Hana Financial Inc. v. Hana Bank, 07-CV1534 (C.D. Cal., filed March 15, 2007).


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