The “Bad Spaniels” dog toys, in a unanimous 9-0 decision, the United States Supreme Court found that a dog toy company had infringed on the Jack Daniels’ trademark whiskey bottle and label design.The whiskey distiller sued the dog toy company, VIP...
Andy Warhol, Pittsburgh native, died in 1987 and the rock musician Prince died in 2016, but they were at the center of a recent U.S. Supreme Court case, where the court upheld, by a 7-2 vote, the copyright claim of photographer Lynn Goldsmith. The events that...
A seller on the online shopping site, Wish.com, listed a sightseeing bus for sale at $15,000 but it was the $12 shipping price that raised suspicions at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). In an action, dated May 4, to cancel the trademark...
As 2022 drew to a close, Congress passed an Act, with bipartisan support, that will enable the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to enforce requirements geared toward combatting online counterfeit sales. The Act, called the Integrity, Notification and Fairness in Online...
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