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Washington (AFP) - The US Supreme Court on Thursday ruled in favor of Jack Daniel's against the maker of a chew toy for dogs that resembles the whiskey manufacturer's iconic bottle. In a 9-0 decision, the nation's highest court ruled against VIP Products, maker of the "Bad Spaniels" squeaky chew toy, in a trademark dispute. "This case is about dog toys and whiskey, two items seldom appearing in the same sentence," Justice Elena Kagan said in the opening sentence of the unanimous opinion. The "Bad Spaniels" chew toy has the distinctive shape of the distillery's square whiskey bottles, but a lab...
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Washington (AFP) - The US Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a trademark dispute over the phrase "Trump too small" used to mock the former president. The case stems from an attempt by a California lawyer, Steve Elster, to trademark the sexually suggestive phrase and print it on T-shirts. Elster's bid to register "Trump too small" was rejected by the US Patent and Trademark Office because he did not have Donald Trump's written consent to use his name. A federal court of appeals disagreed, ruling that it was a violation of Elster's First Amendment free speech rights. Somewhat ironically, it ...
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New York (AFP) - A US appeals court ruled Friday that in America the word "gruyere" is a common label for cheese and cannot be reserved just for the kind made originally in France or Switzerland. The United States does not have the same strict rules as Europe on the designation of origin for foods, said judges in the Richmond, Virginia-based US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. The US Food and Drug Administration does set some standards for gruyere cheese, such as the existence in it of "small holes" or that such cheese is aged at least 90 days. But it does not establish criteria on geo...
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