Tag: trademark law

In Abitron Austria GmbH v. Hetronic Int’l, Inc., 600 U.S. ____ (2023), the U.S. Supreme Court held that the trademark infringement provisions of the Lanham Act do not apply extraterritorially, but rather extend only to claims where the infringing ...

In Jack Daniel’s Properties v. VIP Products LLC, 599 U.S. ____ (2023), the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously found that when an alleged trademark infringer uses the mark as a designation of source for its own goods or services the threshold test for ...

The U.S. Supreme Court recently added to its growing list of high-profile intellectual property cases, agreeing to consider Jack Daniel’s Properties, Inc. v. VIP Products LLC. The trademark case involves a dog toy, “Bad Spaniels,” that imitate...

On September 29, 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court added nine cases to its docket. Lee v Tam, which challenges the federal ban on disparaging trademarks, has the potential to be a blockbuster. The Court’s decision could also have serious implications fo...

Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its first decision of the term. In OBB Personenverkehr AG v. Sachs, (2015), the Court unanimously held that the doctrine of sovereign immunity barred a California woman’s lawsuit against the Austrian nationa...