News & Analysis as of

Fair Use Goods or Services Trademarks

Miller Canfield

F1 Team Sues Former Principal Over Personal Photographs Displaying Team Trademarks in Memoir

Miller Canfield on

Earlier this year, the Haas F1 Team announced it would compete in the 2024 Formula One Championship without the leadership of its former principal Guenther Steiner. Following this separation, Steiner sued his former team for...more

Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

Practice Tips: Fair Use of a Trademark (Part II)

Sometimes it is necessary to use a third-party trademark to refer to the owner of a trademark or its goods and services, and not to describe a particular good or service. Can this use result in trademark infringement? ...more

Snell & Wilmer

Webcast Title Using Trademarks of Another Deemed Nominative Fair Use

Snell & Wilmer on

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently held that the title of a webcast, which included two trademarks belonging to another party, constituted nominative fair use, which protected the defendants from trademark...more

Jaburg Wilk

Fair Enough: The “Fair Use” Defense to Trademark Infringement

Jaburg Wilk on

In the context of trademarks, “fair use” is the term given to the use of someone else’s trademark in a way that will not subject the user to liability for infringing the owner’s rights. Fair use is a defense to a claim of...more

Jaburg Wilk

Celebrity Brands: The Line Between Fair Use and Infringement

Jaburg Wilk on

All brand owners are faced with difficult decisions regarding how aggressively to police their brands. The decision is particularly difficult when the unauthorized use is by a loyal customer or fan. While some traditional...more

5 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 1

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide