Two years ago, U.S. District Judge Robert Sweet lamented that there was no end in sight to a vicious 30-year trademark war between PRL USA Holdings Inc. (owner of the famous Ralph Lauren POLO trademark) and the U.S. Polo Association, the sport’s governing body. “The outcome of these battles has not produced the clarity to compel the termination of the conflict,” the Manhattan judge noted in banning the USPA from affixing its distinctive “Double Horsemen” insignia on sunglasses.

On Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit vacated Sweet’s injunction and remanded the case, adding some clarity but no more finality to the seemingly endless dispute.

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