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Court Dismisses Pepperdine’s Nonsense Trademark Suit Against Netflix Over ‘Running Point’
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Court Dismisses Pepperdine’s Nonsense Trademark Suit Against Netflix Over ‘Running Point’
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Court Dismisses Pepperdine’s Nonsense Trademark Suit Against Netflix Over ‘Running Point’
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Court Dismisses Pepperdine’s Nonsense Trademark Suit Against Netflix Over ‘Running Point’
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Court Dismisses Pepperdine’s Nonsense Trademark Suit Against Netflix Over ‘Running Point’
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The #USCourt of #Appeals ruled that #NFTs qualify for #trademarkprotection under the #LanhamAct, sending the case between #YugaLabs and #RyderRipps back to a lower court for trial. Yuga Labs is entitled to trademark protections for its #BoredApe NFTs, but vacated the $9 million penalty and injunction against Ripps’ collection. https://www.theblock.co/post/364012/nfts-qualify-for-trademark-protection-ninth-circuit-rules-sending-yuga-labs-case-back-for-trial?eicker.news #tech #media #news
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The #USCourt of #Appeals ruled that #NFTs qualify for #trademarkprotection under the #LanhamAct, sending the case between #YugaLabs and #RyderRipps back to a lower court for trial. Yuga Labs is entitled to trademark protections for its #BoredApe NFTs, but vacated the $9 million penalty and injunction against Ripps’ collection. https://www.theblock.co/post/364012/nfts-qualify-for-trademark-protection-ninth-circuit-rules-sending-yuga-labs-case-back-for-trial?eicker.news #tech #media #news
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The #USCourt of #Appeals ruled that #NFTs qualify for #trademarkprotection under the #LanhamAct, sending the case between #YugaLabs and #RyderRipps back to a lower court for trial. Yuga Labs is entitled to trademark protections for its #BoredApe NFTs, but vacated the $9 million penalty and injunction against Ripps’ collection. https://www.theblock.co/post/364012/nfts-qualify-for-trademark-protection-ninth-circuit-rules-sending-yuga-labs-case-back-for-trial?eicker.news #tech #media #news
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The #USCourt of #Appeals ruled that #NFTs qualify for #trademarkprotection under the #LanhamAct, sending the case between #YugaLabs and #RyderRipps back to a lower court for trial. Yuga Labs is entitled to trademark protections for its #BoredApe NFTs, but vacated the $9 million penalty and injunction against Ripps’ collection. https://www.theblock.co/post/364012/nfts-qualify-for-trademark-protection-ninth-circuit-rules-sending-yuga-labs-case-back-for-trial?eicker.news #tech #media #news
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The #USCourt of #Appeals ruled that #NFTs qualify for #trademarkprotection under the #LanhamAct, sending the case between #YugaLabs and #RyderRipps back to a lower court for trial. Yuga Labs is entitled to trademark protections for its #BoredApe NFTs, but vacated the $9 million penalty and injunction against Ripps’ collection. https://www.theblock.co/post/364012/nfts-qualify-for-trademark-protection-ninth-circuit-rules-sending-yuga-labs-case-back-for-trial?eicker.news #tech #media #news
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CW: Long thread/19
This elaborates on the #NinthCircuit's 1996 *Maljack Prods v Goodtimes Home Video Corp*:
> [Trademark][ cannot be used to circumvent copyright law. If material covered by copyright law has passed into the public domain, it cannot then be protected by the #LanhamAct without rendering the Copyright Act a nullity.
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PSA: To be "famous" for the purposes of federal antidilution law, the mark has to be "widely recognized by the general consuming public of the United States as a designation of source of the goods or services of the mark’s owner."
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/1125
Your mark basically has to be a "household name."
Niche fame is NOT enough.
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The U.S. Supreme Court has granted cert in the #BadSpaniels #trademark infringement & #dilution case.
Background & case filings here: https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/jack-daniels-properties-inc-v-vip-products-llc-2/