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  1. 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. theblock.co/post/364012/nfts-q #tech #media #news

  2. 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. theblock.co/post/364012/nfts-q #tech #media #news

  3. 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. theblock.co/post/364012/nfts-q #tech #media #news

  4. 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. theblock.co/post/364012/nfts-q #tech #media #news

  5. 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. theblock.co/post/364012/nfts-q #tech #media #news

  6. 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.

    19/

  7. 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."

    law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15

    Your mark basically has to be a "household name."

    Niche fame is NOT enough.

    #TradeDress #LanhamAct #LawFedi