The Scotts Company LLC v. P&G

Type

Opinion

Author

Danny Julian Boggs

Filed

June 4, 2026

Case

The Scotts Company LLC v. P&G

Case status

Decided

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NOT RECOMMENDED FOR PUBLICATION File Name: 26a0250n.06 No. 25-3555 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FILED FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT Jun 04, 2026 KELLY L. STEPHENS, Clerk ) THE SCOTTS COMPANY LLC, et al., ) Plaintiffs-Appellants, ) ON APPEAL FROM THE ) UNITED STATES DISTRICT v. ) COURT FOR THE ) SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY, ) OHIO Defendant-Appellee. ) OPINION Before: BOGGS, BATCHELDER, and MOORE, Circuit Judges. BOGGS, Circuit Judge. This is a trade-dress infringement and dilution case on interlocutory appeal from the denial of a preliminary injunction. The Scotts Company LLC (“Scotts”) seeks a preliminary injunction against The Procter & Gamble Company (“P&G”) for trade-dress infringement and dilution, alleging that P&G’s weed-killer product Spruce infringes on and dilutes Scotts’s Miracle-Gro trade dress. The district court denied Scotts’s motion for a preliminary injunction on the grounds that it is not likely to succeed on the merits of either claim. For the reasons stated below, we affirm. BACKGROUND The Scotts Company LLC is an Ohio company with its principal place of business in Marysville, Ohio. OMS Investments, Inc., is a Delaware corporation with its princ…

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