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    The Lanham (Trademark) Act (Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 79–489, 60 Stat. 427, enacted July 5, 1946, codified at 15 U.S.C. § 1051 et seq....
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    New Deal (redirect from Lanham Act of 1940)
    industries—and their approach won out. The Community Facilities Act of 1940 (the Lanham Act) provided federal funds to defense-impacted communities where...
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    is given under copyright law. See 17 U.S.C. § 106. Section 43 of the Lanham Act governs false and misleading advertising, and can apply in some instances...
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  • States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit that the provisions of the Lanham Act prohibiting registration of trademarks that may "disparage" persons, institutions...
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  • Until a 2017 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in Matal v. Tam, the Lanham Act did not permit registration of trademarks containing terms that may disparage...
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    Lanham Act for false designation of origin. The court also found that the defendant diluted AOL's trademark and service mark in violation of Lanham Act...
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  • census-designated place Lanham (surname) Lanham Act This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Lanham. If an internal link led...
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    and the provisions of the Lanham Act have become outdated. USCA §1125 was passed in 2012 as an addition to the Lanham Act, clarifying issues about comparative...
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  • private right of action under the Lanham Act is not precluded by regulatory provisions of the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. In 1938, the United States Congress...
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    and unfair competition in violation of the Lanham Act. Copyright infringement, a violation of the Copyright Act of 1976, was added a month later to the list...
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  • million. The Lanham Act prohibits "the deceptive and misleading use of marks" to protect business owners "against unfair competition." The Act defines trademarks...
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    1979 from showing the film by the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders under the Lanham Act, arguing that their uniforms were mimicked by the film's producers and...
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    protected by the Lanham Act, the federal statute which regulates trademarks and trade dress. Under section 43(a) of the Lanham Act, a product's trade...
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  • Supreme Court case regarding provisions of the Lanham Act. The Court will decide whether or not the Act applies to foreign sales. In the 1980s, German...
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  • by the operation, and that Hallatt could not be held liable under the Lanham Act because the alleged trademark infringements did not occur within the United...
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    company therefore filed suit against Google claiming violations of the Lanham Act, including trademark infringement, trademark dilution, false designation...
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    any of the listings or eBay itself. Tiffany alleged eBay violated the Lanham Act and New York state common law by directly infringing on its trademark...
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    Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Rogers claimed that the film violated her Lanham Act trademark rights, right of publicity, and was a "false light" defamation...
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  • though Expedia had no relationship with those hotels, in violation of the Lanham Act, and also falsely noting that hotels with which the company had no relationship...
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    passed a new trademark act, this time according to its Commerce Clause powers. Congress revised the Trademark Act in 1905. The Lanham Act of 1946 updated the...
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    avoid confusion. United States trademark law is mainly governed by the Lanham Act. Common law trademark rights are acquired automatically when a business...
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  • contributory trademark liability under § 32 of the Lanham Act (15 U.S.C. § 1114). Under the Lanham Act, an owner of a trademark is permitted to sue anyone...
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  • Supreme Court of the United States involving the applicability of the Lanham Act to a work in the public domain. In 1948, Fox obtained the exclusive rights...
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  • Supreme Court case dealing with 15 U.S.C. § 1052, a provision of the Lanham Act regarding trademarks using the name of living individuals without their...
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    being "scandalous" under the Lanham Act. The Supreme Court ruled in 2019 that a provision in 15 U.S.C. § 1052(a) of the Act, denying registration to any...
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    trial, Google AdWords may be in violation of trademark law (see federal Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1114(1)) because it (1) allowed arbitrary advertisers to...
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  • to the registration of trademarks under the Lanham Act. It decided 6–3 that the provisions of the Lanham Act prohibiting registration of trademarks of "immoral"...
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    chain is a notable case in United States trademark law regarding the Lanham Act. Mattoon residents Gene and Betty Hoots bought the successful Frigid Queen...
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    Change: Factoring the Reappropriation of Slurs into Section 2(a) of the Lanham Act" (PDF), Columbia Law Review, 106 (2): 388–434, ISSN 0010-1958, JSTOR 4099495...
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    section 3344, California common law right of publicity, and the federal Lanham Act. The United States District Court for the Southern District of California...
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