( June 10, 2026, 12:43 PM EDT) -- NEW YORK — A Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel vacated a New York federal judge’s summary judgment ruling that a 2004 U.S. Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) ruling had preclusive effect on the issue of likelihood-of-confusion on claims that a California winery infringed an Italian winery’s trademarks; the panel determined that TTAB’s order did not meaningfully consider the parties’ use of the marks at issue in commerce and thus did not have preclusive effect....