Trademark and Unfair Comp. Boston College Law School April 22, 2009 Parody, Speech
Mutual of Omaha v. Novak
Cliffs Notes v. Bantam
Anheuser-Busch v. Balducci
Yankee Publishing
Coca Cola
MGM v. Pink Panther Patrol
Mattel v. MCA I’m a Barbie Girl, in a Barbie world; life is plastic; it’s fantastic You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere … Imagination; Life is your Creation … I’m a blond bimbo girl, in a fantasy world...
Mattel v. Walking Mountain
Yankees Suck
Hypo
Examples Gucci Jordache Energizer Bunny Enjoy Coke Spam Don’t Leave Home Without It L.L. Bean Back to School Catalog Dom Perignon Godzilla Michelob GucchiGoo (diaper bag) Lardache (large jeans) Leslie Nielsen (Coors) Enjoy Cocaine (t-shirt) Spa’am (muppet) Don’t Leave Home Without It (condoms) L.L. Beam Back to School Sex Catalog (adult magazine) Dom Popignon (popcorn) Bagzilla (big garbage bags) Michelob Oily (spoof ad)
Parks v. LaFace
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