Punchbowl, Inc. v. AJ Press, LLC (9th Cir. 2024) 90 F.4th 1022
This decision holds that Jack Daniel's Properties, Inc. v. VIP Products LLC (2023) 599 U.S. 140 effectively overruled prior 9th Circuit decisions to the extent that they held the Rogers v. Grimaldi (2d Cir. 1989) 875 F.2d 994 test exempts all expressive use of trademarks from trademark law. Jack Daniel's held that the Rogers test does not apply when the… Read More