Moseley v. V Secret Catalogue, Inc.

Moseley v. V Secret Catalogue, Inc.
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued November 12, 2002 Decided March 4, 2003
Full case name	Victor Moseley and Cathy Moseley, dba Victor's Little Secret, v. V Secret Catalogue, Inc., et al.
Docket no.	01-1015
Citations	537 U.S. 418 (more) 123 S. Ct. 1115; 155 L. Ed. 2d 1; 2003 U.S. LEXIS 1945; 65 U.S.P.Q.2d 1801
Case history
Prior	V Secret Catalogue v. Moseley, 54 U.S.P.Q.2d 1092 (W.D. Ky. 2000); affirmed, 259 F.3d 464 (6th Cir. 2001); cert. granted, 535 U.S. 985 (2002).
Subsequent	558 F. Supp. 2d 734 (W.D. Ky. 2008) (judgment for V Secret, Supreme Court decision superseded by statute); aff'd 605 F.3d 382 (6th Cir. 2010); cert. denied, 562 U.S. 1179 (2011); rehearing denied, 562 U.S. 1280 (2011).
Holding
A claim of trademark dilution requires evidence of actual dilution, not merely a likelihood of dilution
Court membership
Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy David Souter · Clarence Thomas Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Stephen Breyer
Case opinions
Majority	Stevens, joined by unanimous
Concurrence	Kennedy
Laws applied
Federal Trademark Dilution Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1125, 1127
Superseded by
Trademark Dilution Revision Act

Moseley v. V Secret Catalogue, Inc., 537 U.S. 418 (2003), is a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States holding that, under the Federal Trademark Dilution Act, a claim of trademark dilution requires proof of actual dilution, not merely a likelihood of dilution.^[1] This decision was later superseded by the Trademark Dilution Revision Act of 2006 (TDRA).