Trademark owners may howl at the artistic and humorous use of their marks by someone else, but that use might be protected as fair use. Trademark owners’ ears perked up at an appeals court holding last year that parody is a...more
Was it fair for Google to copy 11,500 lines of Oracle’s copyrighted Java Application Programming Interface (API) simply to make it easier for programmers already familiar with Java to develop apps for Google’s Android...more
4/6/2021
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Transformative Use
George Carlin famously observed that there are seven words you can’t say on TV. Erik Brunetti didn’t get the message and thus sought to register a trademark for a line of clothing called “FUCT.” The U.S. Patent and Trademark...more
6/28/2019
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Constitutional Challenges ,
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Free Speech ,
Iancu v. Brunetti ,
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Scandalous/Immoral Marks ,
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Trademark Registration ,
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Viewpoint Discrimination
In a recent case that will raise the stakes for companies involved in contentious administrative trademark proceedings, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the administrative tribunal, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board...more