Keycorp v. Key Bank & Trust

How courts have described this case

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• finding relatedness of the goods was neutral where although the parties’ services were somewhat similar, the parties did “not compete directly in any state or region”
• “While intent to abandon was the touchstone of legal abandonment in early common law cases, the Lanham Act requires a showing of ‘intent not to resume,’ rather than ‘intent to abandon.’ ”
• “Without being able to establish non-use of [the mark by the plaintiff], [the defendant] certainly cannot establish that [the plaintiff] does not intend to resume use of the mark. This is true even if the company did at one time have the goal of discontinuing [the mark].”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).