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No. 20-__ IN THE Supreme Court of the United States _________ EZAKI GLICO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, D/B/A EZAKI GLICO CO., LTD. & EZAKI GLICO USA CORP., Petitioners, v. LOTTE INTERNATIONAL AMERICA CORP. & LOTTE CONFECTIONARY CO. LTD., Respondents. _________ On Petition for a Writ of Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit _________ PETITION FOR A WRIT OF CERTIORARI _________ STEVEN M. LEVITAN NEAL KUMAR KATYAL WOMBLE BOND DICKINSON JESSICA L. ELLSWORTH (US) LLP Counsel of Record 1841 Page Mill Road ANNA KURIAN SHAW Suite 200 PATRICK C. VALENCIA Palo Alto, CA 94304 HOGAN LOVELLS US LLP 555 Thirteenth Street, N.W. KATHERINE B. WELLINGTON Washington, D.C. 20004 HOGAN LOVELLS US LLP (202) 637-5600 125 High Street jessica.ellsworth@ Suite 2010 hoganlovells.com Boston, MA 02110 Counsel for Petitioners QUESTIONS PRESENTED The Lanham Act protects trade dress from unlawful copying. Trade dress includes a product’s design, such as the red wax seal on a bottle of Maker’s Mark, the shape of the Chanel No. 5 perfume bottle, and the con- figuration of the Pepperidge Farm Milano cookie. To qualify for trade dress protection, a product’s design cannot be “functional,” among other requirements. At issue in this case is the test for “functionality” in trade dress law and the role of alternative product designs in creating a dispute of fact that prevents summary judgment. This petition presents two questions: 1. Whether trade dress is “functional” if it is “essen- tial to the use or purpose of the article” or “affects the cost or quality of the article,” as this Court and nine circuit courts have held, or if it is merely “useful” and “nothing more,” as the Third Circuit held below.
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