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18 Jan 2011, 9:55 pm
This damage to its image was exacerbated by the British, who (according to Benjamin Franklin) skillfully counterfeited the bills in huge quantities in New York, in an attempt to bring down the Revolution. [read post]
29 Apr 2008, 5:00 am
" And the Board found it significant that in 1999 the Franklin Mint asked Twiggy "to license her name and likeness for a collectible doll," to join a collection that included Jackie Kennedy, Princess Diana, Marilyn Monroe, and Elvis Presley.In sum, the Board found that "purchasers of children's clothing would, upon seeing the mark TWIGGY on such goods, presume an association with her. [read post]
25 Jul 2010, 9:06 am by law shucks
Back in 1998, the firm sued Franklin Mint for dilution of its clients likeness rights by some Princess Diana collectibles, which we’re sure were sublimely classy. [read post]
1 Oct 2010, 8:56 am
Franklin Mint Co., 292 F.3d 1139, 1150 (9th Cir. 2002) (“classic fair use” concerns the defendant’s use of the plaintiff’s mark to describe the defendant’s own product); Playboy v. [read post]
25 Jul 2010, 7:34 pm by Law Shucks
Back in 1998, the firm sued Franklin Mint for dilution of its clients likeness rights by some Princess Diana collectibles, which we’re sure were sublimely classy. [read post]
10 Jul 2010, 5:14 am by Russ DeMott
After my clerkship ended, I went into private practice and, like any newly-minted lawyer, really didn’t know how to practice law. [read post]
15 May 2010, 5:21 pm by Rebecca Tushnet
One can sue under the Lanham Act with an unregistered mark, of course; but I can certainly imagine a court finding that proceeding under one head of jurisdiction was groundless while one wasn’t—for example, trademark claims but not false advertising claims, as in the recent Franklin Mint case. [read post]
13 Feb 2017, 2:30 am by NCC Staff
Roosevelt made his feelings on the decision and the Court known when he ran again for President as the nominee of the newly minted Progressive Party. [read post]
30 Mar 2012, 2:32 pm by Rebecca Tushnet
., the Franklin Mint case where a bird painter painted three different versions of the same scene, and the second was held not to have infringed the first because the similarities derived from the genre. [read post]
20 Jun 2010, 8:14 am by Law Shucks
FFHSJ is facing four discrimination suits (age x2, race, and sexual orientation), and Proskauer’s Bettina Plavin is defending at least two; Greenberg Traurig is facing a $52 million suit from investors who were allegedly victimized by a mortgage scheme involving documents the firm worked on; Baker Donelson successfully reversed a denial of its motion for summary judgment that a partner’s affair with a client’s wife had not caused the firm to breach its fiduciary duties; Gibson… [read post]
7 Sep 2023, 6:11 am by Mark Ashton
Many of us grew up in a world where our parents bought gobs of Dutch Christmas plates, Lladro and Hummel sculpture and anything that the Franklin Mint could fabricate; from coins to beer steins. [read post]
19 Jun 2010, 7:06 pm by law shucks
FFHSJ is facing four discrimination suits (age x2, race, and sexual orientation), and Proskauer’s Bettina Plavin is defending at least two; Greenberg Traurig is facing a $52 million suit from investors who were allegedly victimized by a mortgage scheme involving documents the firm worked on; Baker Donelson successfully reversed a denial of its motion for summary judgment that a partner’s affair with a client’s wife had not caused the firm to breach its fiduciary duties; Gibson Dunn… [read post]
13 Mar 2012, 4:55 am by Mark Methenitis
So, some courts began to acknowledge that letting places like the Franklin Mint pay bills using Elvis’s face was not fair. [read post]
2 Apr 2019, 9:02 pm by Kelsey M. Mackin
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2 Nov 2016, 1:26 pm by Naomi Jane Gray
Franklin Mint Co., 292 F.3d 1139, 1156 (9th Cir. 2002) (affirming award of $2,308,000 in attorneys’ fees to defendant where plaintiff asserted groundless false advertising claim); Hartman v. [read post]
7 Apr 2016, 8:55 am by Kelly Phillips Erb
On March 22, 1933, President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Cullen–Harrison Act which moved the country towards the end of Prohibition by allowing the manufacture and sale of beer which was approximately 4% alcohol by volume (a little less than the average today) and some wines. [read post]
2 Nov 2016, 1:26 pm by Naomi Jane Gray
Franklin Mint Co., 292 F.3d 1139, 1156 (9th Cir. 2002) (affirming award of $2,308,000 in attorneys’ fees to defendant where plaintiff asserted groundless false advertising claim); Hartman v. [read post]
10 May 2019, 9:12 am by Eric Goldman
Franklin Mint, “The nominative fair use analysis is appropriate where a defendant has used the plaintiff’s mark to describe the plaintiff’s product, even if the defendant’s ultimate goal is to describe his own product. [read post]