Case Name: COACH, INC., and Coach Services, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. DI DA IMPORT AND EXPORT, INC., Defendant-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2016-01-22
Citations: 630 F. App'x 632
Docket Number: No. 15-1480
Parties: COACH, INC., and Coach Services, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. DI DA IMPORT AND EXPORT, INC., Defendant-Appellant.
Judges: Before FRANK H. EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge DANIEL A. MANION, Circuit Judge, DIANE S. SYKES, Circuit Judge.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 630
Pages: 632–633

Head Matter:
COACH, INC., and Coach Services, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. DI DA IMPORT AND EXPORT, INC., Defendant-Appellant.
No. 15-1480.
United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.
Argued Jan. 7, 2016.
Decided Jan. 22, 2016.
Steven P. McKey, Attorney, Donald A. Cole, Attorney, Bryan Cave LLP, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.
Carolyn Shields, Attorney, Liu & Shields LLP, Flushing, NY, for Defendant-Appellant,
Before FRANK H. EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge DANIEL A. MANION, Circuit Judge, DIANE S. SYKES, Circuit Judge.

Opinion:
Order
Coach contends in this suit under the Lanham Act that DI DA infringed its trademarked double-C logo. The district court wrote an opinion concluding that Coach is likely to prevail and is entitled to interlocutory relief. 2015 WL 832410, 2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 22222 (N.D.Ill. Feb. 25, 2015). DI DA immediately appealed.
The parties' briefs disagree about what relief the district court afforded to Coach, and consequently they disagree about the standard of review and the appropriate legal analysis. A little searching through the record revealed the reason for this disagreement: the district court had not awarded any relief. It issued an opinion but not an injunction and did not try to comply with Fed.R.Civ.P. 65(d)(1). After the panel identified this shortcoming during the oral argument, Coach returned to the district judge and asked him to issue a formal order. The judge complied and entered a document captioned "Temporary Restraining Order." Just to make sure that we did not take that caption as a misnomer — issuing a TRO three years into a lawsuit makes little sense — the order states explicitly that it took effect on February 25, 2015, and' expired on March 11, 2015.
The district court's order presents DI DA with two insuperable problems. First, the order's caption and limited duration show that it is a genuine TRO, which canonically cannot be appealed. Sampson v. Murray, 415 U.S. 61, 86 & n. 58, 94 S.Ct. 937, 39 L.Ed.2d 166 (1974). Second, the order's expiration means that DI DA is not now bound by any injunctive order and cannot appeal for that reason as well; DI DA is not adversely affected by the belated TRO, which expired before being issued.
DI DA has asked us to retain jurisdiction in case the district court should issue a preliminary injunction, as Coach has asked it to do. But, if the district court issues an appealable order, DI DA may file a new appeal. Any such appeal will be submitted to this panel under Operating Procedure 6(b), after an abbreviated briefing schedule that permits the parties to supplement their current briefs with arguments appropriate to what, if anything, the district court does in response to Coach's request. The current appeal, which concerns the district court's decision of February 2015 and an expired TRO, is no longer live.
This appeal is dismissed for want of jurisdiction.