IP & Media Law Updates

6/27/2019 12:00:00 AM

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...

6/25/2019 12:00:00 AM

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...

6/24/2019 4:43:22 PM

By Rachel Santori

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

6/17/2019 4:16:17 PM

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...

6/9/2019 12:00:00 AM

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...

6/6/2019 6:59:25 PM

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...