Jack Daniel’s Tells High Court Lanham Act Applies To Trademark Use In Parodies

Mealey's (March 13, 2023, 10:27 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In its March 10 merits reply brief in a trademark infringement and tarnishment dispute, Jack Daniel’s Properties Inc. asks the U.S. Supreme Court to find that the artistic expression test of Rogers v. Grimaldi conflicts with the Lanham Act’s purpose of “regulat[ing] confusing and misleading uses of trademarks,” thereby “enabling profiteers to misappropriate marks to create their own brands, regardless of serious consumer confusion or mistaken association with incompatible brands.”...