Trademark Tiff Between Universities Decided

After a for-profit school in Miami changed its name from Florida National College to Florida National University, a public school, Florida International University, sued for trademark infringement. In July, a panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a district judge’s ruling and rejected the lawsuit. “In a crowded field of similar acronyms, the district court reasonably found that the addition of one more school identifying itself with an acronym containing the letters F and U would not materially add to the confusion,” said the appeals-court ruling.