SOVEREIGN MILITARY ORDER v. KNIGHTS HOSPITALLERS

No. 14-14251.

809 F.3d 1171 (2015)

SOVEREIGN MILITARY HOSPITALLER ORDER OF SAINT JOHN OF JERUSALEM OF RHODES AND OF MALTA, Plaintiff-Counter Defendant-Appellant, v. The FLORIDA PRIORY OF THE KNIGHTS HOSPITALLERS OF THE SOVEREIGN ORDER OF SAINT JOHN OF JERUSALEM, KNIGHTS OF MALTA, THE ECUMENICAL ORDER, Defendant-Counter Claimant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

October 15, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Zachary Hudson , Paul D. Clement , Viet Dinh, Bancroft, PLLC, Washington, DC, Jose Felix Diaz , Akerman, LLP, Miami, FL, Michael K. Grace , Grace & Grace, LLP, Los Angeles, CA, Luis M. O'Naghten , Baker & Mckenzie, LLP, Miami, FL, for Plaintiff-Counter Defendant-Appellant.

Robin I. Bresky , Joanne Rose Telischi , Law Offices of Robin Bresky, Boca Raton, FL, Denise J. Bleau , Ward Damon Posner Pheterson & Bleau, PL, West Palm Beach, FL, Joseph Rodman Steele, Jr. , Duane Morris, LLP, Boca Raton, FL, for Defendant-Counter Claimant-Appellee.

Before MARCUS, WILLIAM PRYOR, and JILL PRYOR, Circuit Judges.


This appeal is the second in a long-running intellectual property dispute between two religious organizations. The Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta alleges that the Florida Priory of the Knights Hospitallers of the Sovereign Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, Knights...

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