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Trademarks as a Barrier to Free-Speech: An Examination of the MetaBirkins Dispute

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On 2 nd December 2021, Mason Rothschild began advertising an NFT collection of fur-covered Birkin-like handbags that he designed, advertising them as ‘METABIRKINS’. Hermes, the owner of the Birkin trademark and trade-dress in USA, promptly sent OpenSeas a cease-and-desist notice. The precedent set in Consim Info Pvt.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (February 6- February 12)

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Regardless, it sent a cease and desist to the defendants in 2022 who have a shop in Jaipur with a similar name and have registered the word mark in 2013. In this case, the Plaintiff, who is the proprietor of the mark “Footlockers” since 1988, has not used it for 30 years.

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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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Examples of trademark experts with this view include professors Rebecca Tushnet and Jennifer Rothman ; attorneys Megan Bannigan, David Bernstein, Timothy Cuffman , and Jon Jekel ; and news reporters from the New York Times ( Adam Liptak ) and Bloomberg ( Greg Stohr ). Tam (2017) and Iancu v.