( August 3, 2026, 3:30 PM EDT) -- ST. LOUIS — An Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel affirmed an Iowa federal judge’s decision to cancel a plaintiff-appellant manufacturer’s trademark covering a brightly colored garden hose because the color was purely functional; the panel also affirmed the judge’s award of more than $3.21 million in attorney fees to the defendant-appellee entity because the plaintiff-appellant’s conduct both before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) and the District Court made the case exceptional....