The trademark cancellation petitions and subsequent appeals surrounding the Washington Redskins’ allegedly disparaging trademarks lay useful groundwork in determining the applicability of the equitable defense of laches in the face of a purported greater public interest. The Lanham Act gives individuals the power to petition to cancel federally registered marks that may be disparaging to a group of individuals, while also permitting trademark holders to assert the equitable defense of laches in the event of unreasonable delay and consequential prejudice. In Pro-Football, Inc. v. Harjo, the District Court for the District of Columbia and the D.C. Circuit held that the defense of laches is applicable to a claim that a trademark is disparaging...
On June 19, 2017, the Supreme Court sent shockwaves through the bedrock of trademark law with its de...
In the 2016-2017 term, the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Matal v. Tam, holding that the Lanham...
The Federal Lanham Act provides that injunctive relief, the primary remedy in trademark cases, is to...
The trademark cancellation petitions and subsequent appeals surrounding the Washington Redskins’ all...
In Harjo v. Pro-Football Inc., the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board cancelled the federally register...
On October 1, 2003, Judge Colleen Koller-Kotellay issued a ruling finding there was insufficient evi...
In June 2014, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) shocked football fans everywhere when it g...
There is a contentious debate about whether it is the government\u27s place to determine whether off...
Since 1967, Pro-Football has registered six marks that include the term “redskins,” a derogatory rac...
For more than a century, non-majority groups have protested the use of trademarks comprised of or co...
My law review article analyzes the constitutionality of the Lanham Act, a federal trademark statute....
In her pioneering book, We Want What’s Ours: Learning from South Africa’s Land Restitution Program, ...
The Lanham Act proscribes the registration of trademarks that consist of disparaging matter. In In r...
Speech law has silenced trademark. In In re Tam, the Federal Circuit ruled that the First Amendment ...
There has been a long history of conflict and disputation in respect of Indigenous Intellectual Prop...
On June 19, 2017, the Supreme Court sent shockwaves through the bedrock of trademark law with its de...
In the 2016-2017 term, the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Matal v. Tam, holding that the Lanham...
The Federal Lanham Act provides that injunctive relief, the primary remedy in trademark cases, is to...
The trademark cancellation petitions and subsequent appeals surrounding the Washington Redskins’ all...
In Harjo v. Pro-Football Inc., the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board cancelled the federally register...
On October 1, 2003, Judge Colleen Koller-Kotellay issued a ruling finding there was insufficient evi...
In June 2014, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) shocked football fans everywhere when it g...
There is a contentious debate about whether it is the government\u27s place to determine whether off...
Since 1967, Pro-Football has registered six marks that include the term “redskins,” a derogatory rac...
For more than a century, non-majority groups have protested the use of trademarks comprised of or co...
My law review article analyzes the constitutionality of the Lanham Act, a federal trademark statute....
In her pioneering book, We Want What’s Ours: Learning from South Africa’s Land Restitution Program, ...
The Lanham Act proscribes the registration of trademarks that consist of disparaging matter. In In r...
Speech law has silenced trademark. In In re Tam, the Federal Circuit ruled that the First Amendment ...
There has been a long history of conflict and disputation in respect of Indigenous Intellectual Prop...
On June 19, 2017, the Supreme Court sent shockwaves through the bedrock of trademark law with its de...
In the 2016-2017 term, the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Matal v. Tam, holding that the Lanham...
The Federal Lanham Act provides that injunctive relief, the primary remedy in trademark cases, is to...