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In response to the Supreme Court of the United States’ ruling in Jack Daniel’s, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reconsidered its 2022 decision in Punchbowl v. AJ Press and...

In Vans, Inc. v. MSCHF Product Studio, Inc., the first appellate court opinion to apply the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Jack Daniel's Properties v. VIP Products, the U.S. Court of Appeals...

In Vans, Inc. v. MSCHF Product Studio, Inc., the first appellate court opinion to apply the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Jack Daniel’s Properties v. VIP Products, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit considered whether to recognize heightened First Amendment protection in a sneaker design and bypass the traditional likelihood of confusion analysis for trademark infringement suits.

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On December 5, the Second Circuit issued a decision in Vans, Inc. v. MSCHF Product Studio, Inc., a trademark case involving a sneaker product purporting to parody the Vans Old Skool shoe.

In its first opportunity to apply the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Jack Daniel’s Properties v. VIP Products LLC, which held that the First Amendment did not protect infringing...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit today invoked the Supreme Court’s decision in Jack Daniel’s Properties v. VIP Products to affirm a district court’s finding that MSCHF Product Studio, Inc.’s shoe, the Wavy Baby Sneaker, likely infringed Vans, Inc.’s Old Skool shoe.

In Part I of this article, I recalled the early years of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, when the court was working well, and how it all went wrong. In this second half, I recount how the America Invents Act (AIA) has fundamentally shifted the power in patent enforcement and policy. 

The Supreme Court recently decided a case on the balance between trademark rights and free speech, especially when parody products are at issue.

“The true crime in ecommerce fraud is that creators will stop creating.” That grim assessment has driven Jennifer L. Cook of SnakeArts to fight like heck against rampant infringements and counterfeits globally.