1st Circuit: Puerto Rican Food Company Abandoned Chicken Mark

(September 20, 2024, 2:51 PM EDT) -- BOSTON — A federal judge in Puerto Rico correctly held that a defendant food company abandoned its POLLO PICÚ mark when granting summary judgment in favor of a plaintiff company that sought to use the mark, a panel of judges in the First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held Sept. 19, saying the defendant company failed to show that it intended to resume its use of the mark....