( June 11, 2026, 1:48 PM EDT) -- CHICAGO — A Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on June 10 agreed with an Illinois federal judge’s finding that a maker of patriotic clothes began using the phrase “This We’ll Defend” as a source-identifying trademark years before a different clothing company began using the same phrase as a mark, affirming the judge’s finding that a trademark registration was defeated by the timing....