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Trademark Infringement 101: What You Need to Know to Protect Your Brand 

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Trademark infringement is the nightmare that keeps big brands up at night. In a world where maintaining a distinctive identity and protecting consumer trust is a constant battle, safeguarding your trademarks is crucial. What is trademark infringement? Let’s start with the basics; what is trademark infringement?

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Airline Sues to Stop Popular Web-Scraping Service–American Airlines v. The Points Guy (Guest Blog Post)

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TPG is a service built around the brand of a world-traveling man sipping champagne in first class, selling to the world his knowledge of the best rewards programs for credit cards and flights. On January 9th, American Airlines sent TPG a cease-and-desist letter. dispute back in the Ninth Circuit in 2016. Facebook v.

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Understanding Copyright, Trademark and Halloween Costumes

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Wtf is a juice demon pic.twitter.com/OxYMWEuoCq — Eli Matthewson (@EliMatthewson) October 1, 2016. To answer that and other questions about Halloween costumes, we have to step back and look at how copyright and trademark law apply to costumes. They are part fashion, part artwork, part branding and part character.

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Evaluating the Constitutionality of Viewpoint-Neutral Trademark Registration Laws That Do Not Restrict Speech—Vidal v. Elster (Guest Blog Post)

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Elster is a trademark dispute at the Supreme Court focused on the issue of whether Steve Elster has a free speech right to register a political message (“Trump Too Small”) as a trademark for shirts. VIP Products (2023) opinion and its other trademark cases. Section 2(c) is a viewpoint-neutral trademark law.

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Trademark Registration of Political Messages for Expressive Merchandise–In re Elster (Guest Blog Post)

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This provision of the federal trademark law known as the Lanham Act is codified in 15 USC 1052.) Sections 2(a) and 2(c) both protect an individual’s right of privacy and right of publicity in trademark law by preventing the unauthorized registration of a person’s name, signature, or image.