FTE v. SPIRITS INTERN. B.V.

Docket Nos. 14-4721-cv(L), 15-152-cv (XAP).

809 F.3d 737 (2016)

FEDERAL TREASURY ENTERPRISE SOJUZPLODOIMPORT, OAO "Moscow Distillery Cristall", Plaintiffs-Counter Defendants-Appellants-Cross-Appellees, v. SPIRITS INTERNATIONAL B.V. f/k/a Spirits International N.V., SPI Spirits Limited, SPI Group SA, Yuri Shefler, Alexey Oliynik, Stoli Group (USA) LLP, Defendants-Counter Claimants-Appellees-Cross-Appellants, William Grant & Sons USA, William Grant & Sons, Inc., Defendants-Appellees-Cross-Appellants, Allied Domecq International Holdings B.V., Allied Domecq Spirits & Wines USA, Inc. d/b/a Allied Domecq Spirits, USA, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: January 5, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel H. Bromberg ( Kathleen M. Sullivan , Marc L. Greenwald , Robert Raskopf , and Jessica Rose , Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, New York, N.Y., on the brief) Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, Redwood Shores, CA, for Plaintiffs-Counter Defendants-Appellants-Cross-Appellees.

Eugene D. Gulland , Bingham B. Leverich , and David M. Zionts , Covington & Burling LLP, Washington, D.C.; Emily Johnson Hemm , Covington & Burling LLP, Redwood Shores, CA, for Defendants-Counter Claimants-Appellees-Cross-Appellants.

Edward T. Colbert ( William M. Merone , on the brief) Kenyon & Kenyon LLP, Washington, D.C. for Defendants-Appellees-Cross-Appellants.

Before: NEWMAN, WALKER, and JACOBS, Circuit Judges.


Rival claims to the "Stolichnaya" trademarks have been asserted by an agency of the Russian Federation and by successors in interest to a Soviet enterprise. The principal issue is whether Federal Treasury Enterprise Sojuzplodoimport ("FTE"), an agency of the Russian Federation, has been endowed by that government with...

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