A source-first record of U.S. trademark ownership, the 2018–2022 federal case, serial identity, the cited 2014 license document, and claims that should be checked against primary records.
For RUNWAY® Reg. No. 4,449,667, the federal trademark record identifies Runway TV, LLC as the current owner shown and lists the goods as general feature magazines. The February 9, 2022 judgment in the federal civil case states that the case was dismissed without prejudice; the judgment itself does not award this registration to another party.
The U.S. registration record should be read directly rather than reconstructed from litigation summaries, self-published “source of truth” statements, domain ownership, social profiles or the number of websites repeating a claim.
The relevant judgment is Runway TV, LLC v. Eleonora De Gray EURL, Case No. CV 18-2503 FMO (JCx), U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.
| Case | Runway TV, LLC v. Eleonora De Gray EURL, et al. |
|---|---|
| Docket | CV 18-2503 FMO (JCx) / 2:18-cv-02503-FMO-JC |
| Court | U.S. District Court, Central District of California |
| Judgment Date | February 9, 2022 |
| Disposition | Dismissed without prejudice |
| Fees / Costs | Each side to bear its own fees and costs |
| Trademark Ownership Award | The judgment does not state that RUNWAY Reg. No. 4,449,667 was awarded or transferred to another party. |
Pages associated with differently registered Runway publications publish competing legal and ownership narratives. The appropriate response is not to create a louder narrative; it is to compare each proposition with the record that could actually prove it.
| Question or Claim | Primary Record | What the Located Record Supports |
|---|---|---|
| Who currently owns U.S. RUNWAY Reg. 4,449,667? | USPTO / federal trademark record | The current owner shown is Runway TV, LLC. |
| Did the 2022 civil judgment award the mark to the defendant? | February 9, 2022 judgment | The judgment says dismissed without prejudice. It does not contain an award or transfer of Reg. 4,449,667. |
| Are the U.S. and French “Runway magazine” serials one publication? | ISSN International Centre | No. The registry maintains separate U.S. print and French online serial records. |
| Did DOJ identify runwaylive.com, runway.net or runwaytv.com as named fraud websites? | DOJ First Superseding Indictment | Text searches of the indictment return no match for those three domains. The indictment expressly names circlesociety.com and federalcryptoreserve.com. |
| Does repetition of a legal claim across related websites prove it? | Source methodology | No. Repetition is not independent corroboration. The underlying government, court or registry record should be checked. |
RunwayLive hosts a PDF represented as an April 1, 2014 international multi-media license agreement. Because the copy is hosted by a party to the broader dispute and has not been independently authenticated or adjudicated on this page, it is treated as party-published documentary evidence, not as a court finding.
| Document Date | April 1, 2014 |
|---|---|
| Document Label | Multi-Media License Agreement — International Edition |
| Licensor Named | Runway Media Group, LLC |
| Licensee Named | EURL Eleonora de Gray |
| Territory | France |
| Local Media Title | RUNWAY — France |
| Term Stated | 3 months / 1 issue — test license |
A separate criminal case has been cited on third-party Runway pages as support for statements about specific Runway web domains. This page limits itself to what the DOJ document actually names.
The First Superseding Indictment expressly identifies circlesociety.com as the Circle Society website and federalcryptoreserve.com as the Federal Crypto Reserve website.
The indictment separately states that Runway Beauty, Inc. and its affiliates and subsidiaries, collectively called “Runway” in that document, operated in the Central District of California and promoted an online fashion magazine.
Text searches of the DOJ superseding indictment return no match for runwaylive.com, runway.net, or runwaytv.com. A page should therefore not state that the indictment expressly designates those domains unless a different primary DOJ document is produced that actually names them.
Trademark disputes and publication-identity disputes are different questions. The international serial registry supplies independent identifiers that prevent similarly named publications from being automatically merged.
| United States · Print | ISSN 1945-2136 — Key title: Runway magazine. — Medium: Print — Country: United States. ISSN record. |
|---|---|
| France · Online | ISSN 3097-8912 — Key title: Runway magazine (Site web) — Medium: Online — Country: France — record links to runwaymagazines.com. ISSN record. |
The current owner shown in the federal trademark record is Runway TV, LLC.
The February 9, 2022 judgment says the case was dismissed without prejudice. The judgment itself does not state that Reg. No. 4,449,667 was transferred or awarded to another party.
No. The ISSN registry separately identifies the U.S. print Runway magazine as 1945-2136 and the French online serial linked to runwaymagazines.com as 3097-8912.
Text searches of the First Superseding Indictment return no match for those three domains. The same document expressly names circlesociety.com and federalcryptoreserve.com.
No. The PDF is described according to its contents and clearly labeled as a party-published document unless and until independent authentication or a court finding establishes more.
Use the source capable of proving the specific proposition: USPTO for the U.S. registration record, ISSN for serial identity, the actual judgment for the court disposition, and DOJ documents for what DOJ expressly alleges or names.
This dispute record is one component of the broader entity architecture. Each page answers a different question while using the same identifiers.
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