NEW YORK — September 16, 2026 — The coast-to-coast trademark dispute between Miramar Brands Group, Inc (MIRAMAR) and rag & bone is officially moving to New York.
MIRAMAR owns incontestable trademarks in International Class 25 in the United States and elsewhere. MIRAMAR’s registrations include US registration nos 389117 stylized wordmark, 389118 standard character wordmark and various other international trademarks in International Class 25 in the European Union and elsewhere.
On September 15, U.S. District Judge Mónica Ramírez Almadani transferred MIRAMAR’s California trademark infringement action filed in early January 2026 to the Southern District of New York, where the related rag & bone action was first filed in late November 2025. The California court rejected rag & bone’s request—raised in response to the court’s show-cause order—to dismiss the California action rather than transfer it, stating that those dismissal arguments may instead be presented in New York.
Almadani stated in the Minutes Order that the "parties previously agreed that it would be in the interest of judicial efficiency to transfer the case pursuant to the first-to-file rule."
U.S. District Judge Mónica Ramírez Almadani further stated that "Rag & Bone now seeks to evade proper procedure by requesting to dismiss the case in response to the Court's Order to Show Cause why the case should not be transferred. The Court thus declines to consider Rag & Bone's arguments, raised for the first time in its response, absent a properly noticed motion. Rag & Bone may raise its arguments for dismissal before the Southern District of New York."
MIRAMAR’s First Amended Complaint for Trademark Infringement, False Designation of Origin, Unfair Competition, Demand For Jury Trial and its Motion for Preliminary Injunction that arrive in New York includes the following Defendants: Rag & Bone Holdings, LLC, Guess?, Inc., a Delaware corporation, WHP Global, LLC, a Delaware company, Bloomingdale’s, LLC, an Ohio company, Nordstrom, Inc., a Washington corporation, Evereve, Inc., a Minnesota corporation, Revolve
Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation, URBN US Retail, LLC, a Delaware company, BOP LLC, a Wisconsin company, Rue Gilt Groupe, Inc., a Delaware corporation, and Couponology, Inc., a New York corporation.
The transfer brings the two sides of the dispute to the same federal district. Judge Lorna G. Schofield had already put proceedings concerning MIRAMAR’s preliminary-injunction counterclaims on hold while awaiting Judge Almadani’s transfer decision.
From California to New York, the MIRAMAR dispute has arrived on a single stage. The merits remain to be decided.
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