Illinois district trademark cases blow up
The District Court for the Northern District of Illinois witnessed an explosion in trademark cases last year, probably because of the rise in
counterfeiting during the COVID pandemic, Managing IP revealed this week.
While cases fell in almost every other trademark
litigation hotspot in the US, including in the Central District of California and
the Southern District of New York, the Illinois court received 41% more cases
in 2020 than in 2019 – rising from 458 to 650.
Frank Angileri, president at Brooks Kushman in Michigan,
says he suspects the rise is due to the court being seen as more open to anonymising