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Makeup Dupes And Fair Use, Samantha Primeaux Jan 2018

Makeup Dupes And Fair Use, Samantha Primeaux

American University Law Review

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2017 Trademark Law Decisions Of The Federal Circuit, Anita B. Polott, Rachel E. Fertig Jan 2018

2017 Trademark Law Decisions Of The Federal Circuit, Anita B. Polott, Rachel E. Fertig

American University Law Review

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Moral Judgments In Trademark Law, Ned Snow Jan 2017

Moral Judgments In Trademark Law, Ned Snow

American University Law Review

Under the federal Lanham Act, eligibility for trademark protection depends on whether a mark is sufficiently moral. The Federal Circuit has recently held this provision of the Act to be unconstitutional based on its interpretation of speech doctrine. The context of trademark law, however, refutes this interpretation. Indeed, speech doctrine appears to support this morality requirement. Nevertheless, there seems to be another reason that the Federal Circuit held the morality requirement unconstitutional: the judicial discomfort with morality serving as a basis for law. This Essay concludes that this judicial discomfort is unjustified in this instance. From both a constitutional and …


2016 Trademark Law Decisions Of The Federal Circuit, Anita B. Polott, Rachel E. Fertig Jan 2017

2016 Trademark Law Decisions Of The Federal Circuit, Anita B. Polott, Rachel E. Fertig

American University Law Review

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2003 Trademark Law Decisions Of The Federal Circuit, Roberta Horton, Catherine Rowland Apr 2004

2003 Trademark Law Decisions Of The Federal Circuit, Roberta Horton, Catherine Rowland

American University Law Review

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The Birth, Death, And Renaissance Of The Doctrine Of Secondary Meaning In The Making, Willajeanne F. Mclean Jan 1993

The Birth, Death, And Renaissance Of The Doctrine Of Secondary Meaning In The Making, Willajeanne F. Mclean

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