Opinion ID: 3040316
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Comity and Collateral Estoppel

Text: Garcia also argues that this court should, for reasons of comity, follow the decision of the French court in Bordeaux (“the Bordeaux Decision”), which he alleges found that Horphag was not the rightful owner of its trademark in the United States. We agree with the district court that the Bordeaux Decision is inadmissible. The Bordeaux Decision explicitly states that “although the . . . agreement confers on C.E.P. [(one of Masquelier’s companies)] an interest to take action to protect the two . . . French trademarks [(one of which is Pycnogenol)], it cannot give [C.E.P.] the right under French law to prevent the Horphag company from using, outside France, the verbal trademark ‘Pycnogenol’ filed in another country.”