News & Analysis as of

Name and Likeness Likelihood of Confusion

Miller Canfield

F1 Team Sues Former Principal Over Personal Photographs Displaying Team Trademarks in Memoir

Miller Canfield on

Earlier this year, the Haas F1 Team announced it would compete in the 2024 Formula One Championship without the leadership of its former principal Guenther Steiner. Following this separation, Steiner sued his former team for...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Blood May be Thicker than Water, but is it Thicker than Federal Trademark Rights? One Family’s Relationship Tested at the USPTO

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on

​​​​​​​Slovenian-born Luka Doncic became a professional basketball player at the young age of sixteen years old and the towering height of 6’7”. He quickly made a name for himself, leading his Spanish team Real Madrid to the...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Judge Rejects Greek Freak’s Shot for Damages

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on

We previously wrote about a series of trademark lawsuits filed by NBA MVP and now NBA champion Giannis Antetokounmpo over the use of his nickname “Greek Freak”. Those lawsuits all contained similar allegations: that the...more

Weintraub Tobin

Podcast: The Briefing by the IP Law Blog - Court Melts Ice Cube's Trademark Lawsuit against Robinhood + Update

Weintraub Tobin on

This week on the Briefing by the IP Law Blog, Scott Hervey and Josh Escovedo discuss a dispute between rapper, Ice Cube and Robinhood over the trading app’s use of Ice Cube’s image in a newsletter. ...more

Weintraub Tobin

The Briefing by the IP Law Blog: Court Melts Ice Cube's Trademark Lawsuit against Robinhood + Update

Weintraub Tobin on

This week on the Briefing by the IP Law Blog, Scott Hervey and Josh Escovedo discuss a dispute between rapper, Ice Cube and Robinhood over the trading app’s use of Ice Cube’s image in a newsletter. ...more

Foster Garvey PC

Sports & Entertainment Spotlight - April 2021

Foster Garvey PC on

March is over, a new month begins. Congrats on the Final Four to the Zags, Cougars, Bears and Bruins. Opening Day is upon us, it’s time to play ball, And battle for the World Series title deep into the fall. Enough setting...more

Knobbe Martens

Rights in Bob Marley's name and likeness trump free speech where defence not properly pleaded | World Trademark Review

Knobbe Martens on

Fifty-Six Hope Road is a company run by some of Bob Marley's children, and it owns the property rights to Bob Marley's name, voice and likeness. Hope Road licensed Zion Rootswear the exclusive right to use Marley's name and...more

7 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 1

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide