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25-1548·TRADEMARK

Sacks Holdings, Inc. v. Grin Natural USA Limited

Status
  1. Scheduled
  2. Argued (current)
  3. Opinion Issued
Question Presented

Whether the district court erred by imposing extra-statutory requirements on the definition of "use in commerce" under 15 U.S.C. § 1127; related issues.

Argument Date
December 9, 2025
Argument Time
9:30 a.m.
Panel
VI
Courtroom
Tan Courtroom (Room 223)
Lower Court Judge
Eagles

Panel

Judge Thacker
Judge Heytens
Judge Groh*

Citation

CaseSacks Holdings, Inc. v. Grin Natural USA Limited, No. 25-1548 (4th Cir. argued Dec. 9, 2025)
PanelThacker, Heytens & Groh, JJ.

Arguing Counsel

Panel That Day

1 of 2 cases argued December 9, 2025 before this panel have been decided.

Authorship Outlook

With the decided sibling already credited to Judge Groh*, the remaining opinion is most likely Judge Heytens's — they wrote at least one opinion in 70 of their 87 prior multi-case days.

1 of the 2 opinions from this panel has been decided. Decided opinions have been authored by Judge Groh*.

This is a statistical guess based on prior sittings in this dataset, not a prediction of the ruling.

Predicted Opinion Release

Likely between November 6, 2026 and November 28, 2027, with January 8, 2027 the most likely date.

Argued 323 days ago. The case has now outlasted nearly every comparable prior case (97% of mass consumed); a separate writing or a contentious majority is likely in progress.

■ ■ ■Calibrated from a deep history (20 prior subject cases + 2 prior panel cases)

80% predictive interval from a log-logistic accelerated-failure-time model fit on 2,134 prior decided cases plus 111 currently-pending cases as right-censored evidence. Updates as days pass with no opinion. How this is calculated →