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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • States Supreme Court case regarding provisions of the Lanham Act. The Court decided whether or not the Act applies to foreign sales. In the 1980s, German engineer...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    company therefore filed suit against Google claiming violations of the Lanham Act, including trademark infringement, trademark dilution, false designation...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    sponsor of the National Housing for Defense Act and the Community Facilities Act of 1940 (the Lanham Act), both of which passed just prior to American...
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  • Thumbnail for White v. Samsung Electronics America, Inc.
    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    proceedings against an infringer if the owner fails to do so. Section 32 of the Lanham Act states that those who use similar or identical trademarks, products, or...
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    held Google AdWords was not a violation of trademark law (see federal Lanham Act,15 U.S.C. § 1114(1)). Though other cases had addressed trademark infringement...
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