IP & Media Law Updates

27 Jun, 2019

False Advertising Litigation Alert: Using a Competing Product to Advertise Your Own May Not Be False Advertising

By Craig Whitney

Conventional wisdom would likely conclude that using an image of a competing product to advertise your own runs afoul of false...

25 Jun, 2019

By Craig Whitney

Is a work that's otherwise protected by copyright suddenly fair game once it's been "meme-ified"? That was the question involving "Pepe...

24 Jun, 2019

By Rachel Santori

Today, the Supreme Court ruled that FUCT and other profane, “scandalous” or “immoral” words may be registered as trademarks. Since 2011,...

17 Jun, 2019

By Karen Hsieh

Is the term CAPSULE descriptive of cellphone cases? Based on a recent decision in Uncommon, LLC v. Spigen, Inc., the Seventh Circuit...

09 Jun, 2019

By Jeremy Goldman

I can’t be the only U.S. lawyer who tends to tune out when hearing about legal developments in Europe. But I recently zoomed in on a set...

06 Jun, 2019

By Edward H. Rosenthal

In its very recent decision in Fourth Estate Pub. Benefit Corp. v. Wall-Street.com, the Supreme Court held that an action for copyright...