Declining to cancel a registrant's trademark on the ground of fraud when the registrant's misleading statements "can reasonably be construed to have resulted from inadvertence or ignorance of the applicable law of trademarks"
Reversing TTAB decision that an intent-to-use registration was void ab initio because the product ultimately used in commerce was not "identical" to the application and holding that the requirement was to maintain the "inherent and identifiable character" of the product
Finding that "[t]he mere withholding of information as to the Italian word for 'fiocco' [was] not such a fraudulent withholding as to warrant cancellation" of the Plaintiff's "FIOCCO" mark
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Finding that, per N.Y. C.P.L.R. § 1024, New York law provides a more forgiving principle for relation back in the context of naming John Doe defendants described with particularity in the complaint