Many years ago, back when I used to answer my landline telephone, I found myself in a conundrum. I realized that, when a caller asked, “May I speak to June, please?” I would answer, “This is she.” But ...

"It was a bridge too far. They overstepped," Hogan Lovells attorney Hans Hertell said of the alumni band after the federal court ruling analysis." In the case Earth, Wind & Fire IP LLC. v. Substantial ...

The nominative fair use doctrine was first recognized by the Ninth Circuit in New Kids on the Block v. News America Publishing, 971 F. 2d 302 (1992). The elements of this doctrine in the Ninth Circuit ...

If a defendant in a trademark case uses the plaintiff’s trademark, not to identify the defendant’s own products, but rather to refer accurately to the plaintiff’s products, is that trademark ...