( April 10, 2025, 1:26 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on April 9 affirmed a California federal judge’s decision to reject all claims and counterclaims in a trademark dispute over the word “Smarter” in relation to nutritional products, agreeing with the judge that neither party had shown that it had a protectible mark in the first place....