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Post No Bills: Can The Nba Prohibit Its Players From Wearing Tattoo Advertisements?, John Vukelj
Post No Bills: Can The Nba Prohibit Its Players From Wearing Tattoo Advertisements?, John Vukelj
Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Panel Iii: Trademark And Publicity Rights Of Athletes, Edward Kelman, Bruce Meyer, Dennis Niermann, Mike Principe
Panel Iii: Trademark And Publicity Rights Of Athletes, Edward Kelman, Bruce Meyer, Dennis Niermann, Mike Principe
Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Post No Bills: Can The Nba Prohibit Its Players From Wearing Tattoo Advertisements?, John Vukelj
Post No Bills: Can The Nba Prohibit Its Players From Wearing Tattoo Advertisements?, John Vukelj
Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Why The Initially Confused Should Get A Clue: The Battle Between Trademark Infringement And Consumer Choice Online, John Handy
Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Panel Iii: Trademark And Publicity Rights Of Athletes, Edward Kelman, Bruce Meyer, Dennis Niermann, Mike Principe
Panel Iii: Trademark And Publicity Rights Of Athletes, Edward Kelman, Bruce Meyer, Dennis Niermann, Mike Principe
Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Vol. Vi, Tab 38 - Ex. 30 - Email From Nino Ninov, Nino Ninov
Vol. Vi, Tab 38 - Ex. 30 - Email From Nino Ninov, Nino Ninov
Rosetta Stone v. Google (Joint Appendix)
Exhibits from the un-sealed joint appendix for Rosetta Stone Ltd., v. Google Inc., No. 10-2007, on appeal to the 4th Circuit. Issue presented: Under the Lanham Act, does the use of trademarked terms in keyword advertising result in infringement when there is evidence of actual confusion?
Towards A Cosmopolitan Vision Of Conflict Of Laws: Redefining Governmental Interests In A Global Era, Paul Schiff Berman
Towards A Cosmopolitan Vision Of Conflict Of Laws: Redefining Governmental Interests In A Global Era, Paul Schiff Berman
ExpressO
It has now been ten years since the idea of global online communication first entered the popular consciousness. And while the internet has undoubtedly opened up new worlds of interaction and cooperation across borders, this increased transnational activity has also at times inspired parochialism, at least among the legislatures and courts of nation-states around the globe. Thus, we have seen a slew of national laws and court decisions purporting to regulate a wide variety of online activities, from gambling to chat rooms to auction sites, and seeking to enforce territorially based rules regarding trademarks, contractual relations, privacy norms, “indecent” content, …
Semiotics Of The Scandalous And The Immoral And The Disparaging: Section 2(A) Trademark Law After Lawrence V. Texas, Llewellyn Joseph Gibbons
Semiotics Of The Scandalous And The Immoral And The Disparaging: Section 2(A) Trademark Law After Lawrence V. Texas, Llewellyn Joseph Gibbons
Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review
This article explores whether the holding in Lawrence v. Texas may be extended to trademark law. Under section 2(a), some symbols may not serve as trademarks because they may be scandalous, immoral, or disparaging, which is of particular interest to the Queer community. For some, arguably at least a substantial composite of the American people, the relevant test group for scandal or immorality, under section 2(a), the mere existence of queers constitute scandal and immorality and terms of pride and endearment with which they express their sexuality in concrete form are a further example of immorality. Under these circumstances, Lawrence …
The Naked Licensing Doctrine Exposed: How Courts Interpret The Lanham Act To Require Licensors To Police Their Licensees & Why This Requirement Conflicts With Modern Licensing Realities & The Goals Of Trademark Law , Rudolph J. Kuss
Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review
This Comment discusses the naked licensing doctrine, under which trademark owners may lose their trademark protection through failing to exercise control over their licensees. Even though the Lanham Act holds that abandonment of trademark rights is only appropriate when a trademark has lost its significance, courts have held that a trademark owner may abandon its rights through naked licensing when it breaches its affirmative duty to police its licensees. In other words, these courts find abandonment even when there is no evidence that the quality of the goods and services sold under the trademark has declined. This Comment argues that …
Vol. Ix, Tab 41 - Ex. 24 - Fax From Allstate Insurance Company, Allstate Insurance Company
Vol. Ix, Tab 41 - Ex. 24 - Fax From Allstate Insurance Company, Allstate Insurance Company
Rosetta Stone v. Google (Joint Appendix)
Exhibits from the un-sealed joint appendix for Rosetta Stone Ltd., v. Google Inc., No. 10-2007, on appeal to the 4th Circuit. Issue presented: Under the Lanham Act, does the use of trademarked terms in keyword advertising result in infringement when there is evidence of actual confusion?
Who Owns The Internet? Ownership As A Legal Basis For American Control Of The Internet, Markus Muller
Who Owns The Internet? Ownership As A Legal Basis For American Control Of The Internet, Markus Muller
Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Who Owns The Internet? Ownership As A Legal Basis For American Control Of The Internet, Markus Muller
Who Owns The Internet? Ownership As A Legal Basis For American Control Of The Internet, Markus Muller
Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Knocking Out Knock-Offs: Effectuating The Criminalization Of Trafficking In Counterfeit Goods, Lauren D. Amendolara
Knocking Out Knock-Offs: Effectuating The Criminalization Of Trafficking In Counterfeit Goods, Lauren D. Amendolara
Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Knocking Out Knock-Offs: Effectuating The Criminalization Of Trafficking In Counterfeit Goods, Lauren D. Amendolara
Knocking Out Knock-Offs: Effectuating The Criminalization Of Trafficking In Counterfeit Goods, Lauren D. Amendolara
Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Indigenous Peoples And Intellectual Property, Stephen M. Mcjohn, Lorie Graham
Indigenous Peoples And Intellectual Property, Stephen M. Mcjohn, Lorie Graham
Suffolk University Law School Faculty Works
This paper, following on Michael F. Brown's Who Owns Native Culture?, suggests that intellectual property law, negotiation, and human rights precepts can work together to address indigenous claims to heritage protection. Granting intellectual property rights in such spheres as traditional knowledge and folklore does not threaten the public domain in the same way that expansion of intellectual property rights in more commercial spheres does. It is not so much a question of the public domain versus corporate and indigenous interests, as it is a question of the impact corporate interests have had on the indigenous claims. Indeed indigenous peoples' claims …
The Constitutional Failing Of The Anticybersquatting Act, Ned Snow
The Constitutional Failing Of The Anticybersquatting Act, Ned Snow
Faculty Publications
Eminent domain and thought control are occurring in cyberspace. Through the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA), the government transfers domain names from domain-name owners to private parties based on the owners' bad-faith intent. The owners receive no just compensation. The private parties who are recipients of the domain names are trademark holders whose trademarks correspond with the domain names. Often the trademark holders have no property rights in those domain names: trademark law only allows mark holders to exclude others from making commercial use of their marks; it does not allow mark holders to reserve the marks for their own …
The Spawn Of Learned Hand-A Reexamination Of Copyright Protection And Fictional Characters: How Distinctly Delineated Must The Story Be Told?, Gregory S. Schienke
The Spawn Of Learned Hand-A Reexamination Of Copyright Protection And Fictional Characters: How Distinctly Delineated Must The Story Be Told?, Gregory S. Schienke
Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review
Fictional characters are the backbone of the multi-billion dollar entertainment industry. Since the early twentieth century, the owners of fictional characters have recognized that there is money to be made in derivative products featuring those characters and move swiftly to stop infringing use of those characters. Learned Hand, in passing, allowed that fictional characters could be protected through copyright law if the characters were distinctly delineated. Since then, the courts have created a piecemeal protective-strategy involving trademark and copyright law to protect fictional characters. The Seventh Circuit in Gaiman v. McFarlane, continued using the traditional analysis, that copyrightability for a …
Defining The Limits Of The Eu Essential Facilities Doctrine On Intellectual Property Rights: The Primacy Of Securing Optimal Innovation, James Turney
Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property
No abstract provided.
The End Of Federalism In Telecommunication Regulations?, Douglas C. Sicker
The End Of Federalism In Telecommunication Regulations?, Douglas C. Sicker
Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property
No abstract provided.
Trademarks Or Copyrights: Which Intellectual Property Right Affords Its Owner The Greatest Protection Of Architectural Ingenuity?, Rashida Y.V. Macmurray
Trademarks Or Copyrights: Which Intellectual Property Right Affords Its Owner The Greatest Protection Of Architectural Ingenuity?, Rashida Y.V. Macmurray
Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property
No abstract provided.
Ambush Marketing: The Off-Field Competition At The Olympic Games, Jason K. Schmitz
Ambush Marketing: The Off-Field Competition At The Olympic Games, Jason K. Schmitz
Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property
No abstract provided.
Intellectual Property And Genetically Modified Seeds: The United States, Trade, And The Developing World, Haley Stein
Intellectual Property And Genetically Modified Seeds: The United States, Trade, And The Developing World, Haley Stein
Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property
No abstract provided.
Making A Mark In The Internet Economy: A Trademark Analysis Of Search Engine Advertising, Mark Bartholomew
Making A Mark In The Internet Economy: A Trademark Analysis Of Search Engine Advertising, Mark Bartholomew
Oklahoma Law Review
No abstract provided.
Comparative Advertising In The United States And In France, Charlotte J. Romano
Comparative Advertising In The United States And In France, Charlotte J. Romano
Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business
Comparative advertising has been widely used for over thirty years in the United States. By contrast, the use of this advertising format has traditionally been-and still is-very marginal in France. The term "comparative advertising" refers to any form of advertising in which a trademark owner draws a comparison between his product, service, or brand and that of a competitor. The central issue of this article is to determine why, despite identical guiding policies, comparative advertising remains unusual in France while it is commonplace in the United States. Attempting to answer that question unavoidably raises numerous related issues: can the two …
Is The Monopoly Theory Of Trademarks Robust Or A Bust?, Harold R. Weinberg
Is The Monopoly Theory Of Trademarks Robust Or A Bust?, Harold R. Weinberg
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
The "monopoly theory of trademarks" would "antitrustize" trademark law by incorporating antitrust legal precedent, economics, policies, reasoning, and terminology. The theory is comprised of six interrelated postulates contained in trademark law and scholarship. The postulates are (1) trademarks are monopolies; (2) trademark monopolies are like illegal antitrust monopolies because both harm competition; (3) trademark law is like antitrust law because both value competition; (4) trademark law is like antitrust law because both apply economic methodology to product markets; (5) an antitrust lens can help one understand trademarks and trademark law; and (6) an antitrust lens can help one decide whether …
When You Wish Upon Dastar: Creative Provenance And The Lanham Act, Mary Lafrance
When You Wish Upon Dastar: Creative Provenance And The Lanham Act, Mary Lafrance
Scholarly Works
This Article examines the application of section 43(a) of the Lanham Act to claims of reverse passing off through the lens of the Supreme Court's unpersuasive effort in Dastar Corp. v. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. to exclude a single class of reverse passing off-claims - those involving “expressive” works as opposed to physical commodities - from the scope of section 43(a). The Article critiques the Court's analysis of section 43(a) in light of case law and the pertinent legislative history, including, the Trademark Law Revision Act of 1988, the Berne Convention Implementation Act of 1988, and the Visual Artists …
Trademark Law And The Social Construction Of Trust: Creating The Legal Framework For On-Line Identity, Beth Simone Noveck
Trademark Law And The Social Construction Of Trust: Creating The Legal Framework For On-Line Identity, Beth Simone Noveck
Articles & Chapters
Trust is the foundation of society for without trust, we cannot cooperate. Trust, in turn, depends upon secure, reliable, and persistent identity. Cyberspace is thought to challenge our ability to build trust because the medium undermines the connection between online pseudonym and offline identity. We have no assurances of who stands behind an online avatar; it may be one person, it may be more, it may be a computer. The legal debate to date has focused exclusively on the question of how to maintain real world identity in cyberspace. But new "social software" technology that enables communities from eBay to …
The Right Of Publicity And Autonomous Self-Definition, Mark P. Mckenna
The Right Of Publicity And Autonomous Self-Definition, Mark P. Mckenna
Journal Articles
Legal protection against unauthorized commercial uses of an individual's identity has grown significantly over the last fifty years as it has relentlessly pursued economic value. It was forced to focus on value because a false distinction between the harms suffered by private citizens and celebrities seemingly left celebrities without a privacy claim for commercial use of their identities. But the normative case for awarding individuals the economic value of their identity is weak, since celebrities do not need additional incentive to invest in either their native skill or in developing a persona. Still, while the prevailing justification is inadequate, as …
Beyond Cybersquatting: Taking Domain Name Disputes Past Trademark Policy, Jacqueline D. Lipton
Beyond Cybersquatting: Taking Domain Name Disputes Past Trademark Policy, Jacqueline D. Lipton
Articles
All good 'cyberlawyers' know that in the late 1990s, legal and regulatory measures were adopted, both at the domestic and international level to address the then-growing problem of 'cybersquatting': that is, the registration of often multiple domain names corresponding to valuable corporate trademarks with the intention of extorting high prices from the trademark owners for transferring the names to them. Since 1999, the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy ('UDRP') in particular, complemented by the Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act ('ACPA'), has been very successful in combating this practice. Unfortunately, since the late 1990s, there has been little movement towards developing …