Alia Arif Hussain

A recent United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (“Federal Circuit”) decision highlighted the importance of litigation strategy. In 2023, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (“Board”) granted Uninterrupted IP LLC (“UNIP”) request to cancel a trademark registration held by Game Plan Inc. (“Game Plan”) and found that UNIP had priority over Game Plan, defeating Game Plan’s likelihood of confusion claims. The Federal Circuit affirmed both rulings.

1 INTRODUCTION Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a severe metabo-psychiatric disorder (Bulik et al., 2021; Watson et al., 2019) with one of the highest mortality rates of all psychiatric disorders (Chesney et al., 2014). The high mortality is partly due to elevated rates of suicide (American Psychiatric Association, 2013; Auger et al., 2021; Zerwas et al., 2015).