Iowa Health System v. Trinity Health Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• finding that “the owner of the...mark [is] thus the only proper [defendant on] a claim for cancellation of the mark”
• granting defendants’ motion to dismiss “to the extent that the plaintiffs must amend their pleading of fraud, if they can, to satisfy” Rules 9(b) and 12(b)(6) because they did not sufficiently plead their fraudulent procurement of a trademark registration with particularity
• doctrine of unclean hands applies to conduct involving fraud, deceit, unconseionability, or bad faith directly related to plaintiffs complaint
• claim for cancellation can only be brought against the owner of the registration, not against a licensee.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).