( December 12, 2025, 8:31 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel affirmed the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board’s (TTAB) decision to cancel a sports-based nonprofit organization’s trademarks containing the phrase “more than an athlete,” agreeing that a LeBron James-founded company had shown that it acquired common-law rights to a similar phrase earlier than the nonprofit’s registration....