No Spring for Springboards

“Springboards to Education” returned to the Fifth Circuit with another unsuccessful trademark-infringement lawsuit against a school district: “One decisive fact remains all the same: sophisticated school-district customers can tell the difference between goods Springboards is selling them and goods and slogans [the [Pharr-San Juan-Alamo  is Independent School District] is not.” (footnote omitted). A 2019 case involving Springboards provides a useful explanation of the different policy interests advanced by different bodies of intellectual-property law.