Article: Trade Dress.

Article: Statutory And Nominative Fair Use Under The Lanham ...
Mondaq Business Briefing;  November 28, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... Defense? Is Prominent Use Fair? Can Trade Dress Be the Subject of Fair Use? Nominative ... thus deemed to be a fair use. The Lanham Act contains a statutory fair use provision ... the "[t]he dissimilarity of trade dress of these products prompted the district ...

Article: Public Awareness of A Trademark Is Required to Establish ...
Mondaq Business Briefing;  June 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... established trademark usage under the Lanham Act. General Healthcare Ltd. v ... mark KENT CREME BLEACH and related trade dress. Ten years after learning of KIP ... sales are beyond the purview of the Lanham Act. Thus, in light of GH's lack ...

Article: Copycat law has lots of lives. (Section 43 of the Lanham ...
Footwear News;  April 5, 1993 ;     700+ words ... ... of Section 43(a) of the Lanham Act of 1988. The Section covers ... concerning the defendants' alleged trade dress infringement under federal ... of confusion," the same trade dress issue L.A. Gear lost in ... favor of the defendants on trade dress in the L.A. Gear case does ...

Article: First Circuit Establishes Framework for Determining When the ...
Mondaq Business Briefing;  September 5, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... new framework for determining when the Lanham Act should be applied extraterritorially ... subject matter jurisdiction under the Lanham Act over the foreign activities of foreign ... viewed in light of the purposes of the Lanham Act. McBee v. Delica Co., Ltd., Case ...

Article: Using The Lanham Act to Combat Foreign Trademark ...
Franchising World;  July 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... the recent increase in the use of the Lanham Act to thwart piracy of their trademarks ... are considered. In many cases, the Lanham Act may provide a remedy -- under American ... familiar brands have brought suit under the Lanham Act alleging infringement abroad. To date ...

Article: A CELEBRITY BALANCING ACT: AN ANALYSIS OF TRADEMARK PROTECTION ...
Northwestern University Law Review;  July 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... ANALYSIS OF TRADEMARK PROTECTION UNDER THE LANHAM ACT AND THE FIRST AMENDMENT ARTISTIC EXPRESSION ... under section 43(a) of the federal Lanham Act.10 Gregory Reed, Ms. Parks's lawyer ... significant concern in deciding her federal Lanham Act claims.15 The district court found ...

Article: Lanham Act
West's Encyclopedia of American Law;      618 words ...LANHAM ACT The Lanham Act of 1946, also known as the Trademark Act (15 U.S.C.A ... devices used by businesses to identify their goods and services. The Lanham Act gives trademark users exclusive rights to their marks, thereby protecting ...