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25-1645·TRADEMARK

General Cigar Company, Inc. v. Empresa Cubana del Tabaco

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

Challenge to cancellation of appellant's typeset and stylized marks that had been registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Argument Date
September 16, 2026
Argument Time
9:30 a.m.
Panel
I
Courtroom
Red Courtroom (Room 412)
Lower Court Judge
Brinkema

Panel

Judge Gregory
Judge Thacker
Judge Quattlebaum

Citation

CaseGeneral Cigar Company, Inc. v. Empresa Cubana del Tabaco, No. 25-1645 (4th Cir. argued Sept. 16, 2026)
PanelGregory, Thacker & Quattlebaum, JJ.

Arguing Counsel

Panel That Day

0 of 4 cases argued September 16, 2026 before this panel have been decided.

Authorship Outlook

No opinions from this panel have been decided yet, so authorship can't be narrowed — the 4 pending opinions could come from any of the panelists.

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 April 4, 2027, with December 13, 2026 the most likely date.

Argued 42 days ago. Comparable cases at this stage almost always still pending — there's no useful tightening yet.

■ ■ □Calibrated (20 prior subject cases + 12 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 →

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