United States v. Jorge Guerra

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “it is irrelevant that [the defendant] did not know the marks were registered in the United States, or thought the marks were only unprotectable Cuban marks”
• noting that the Counterfeit Trademark Act requires the relevant trademarks to be in actual use at the time of the defendant’s conduct
• providing that a conspiracy may be proven by circumstantial evidence and inferred from a concert of action
• stating that “the buyer-seller rule is inapposite to [a] commercial supplier-dealer relationship”
• “The ‘identical or substantially indistinguishable’ standard [in the counterfeit context] is to be construed more narrowly in a criminal context than in a civil context.”
• district court erred by instructing jury that trademark registration is prima facie evidence of owner's continued use of mark

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).