By Nikki R. Breeland Recently, Giannis Antetokounmpo — a famous NBA basketball player on the Milwaukee Bucks known as the “Greek Freak” and owner of the “Greek Freak” trademark — obtained a decisive trademark infringement victory against a spice company and its CEO for using the term “Greek Freak” as […]
By: Danielle Manahan What would you do if one of your employees stole your intellectual property and your good name and used it to sell their own products? Top beauty brand Mary Kay Inc. recently found itself in exactly this predicament after the former personal assistant to the company’s founder, […]
By Nikki R. Breeland, Esq. Recently, Instagram was hit with a major class action lawsuit for copyright infringement for its “Embedding Tool” feature.[1] According to the complaint by photojournalists Alexis Hunley and Matthew Scott Brauer, Instagram created the Embedding Tool to display copyrighted works of Instagram users on third-party publisher […]
In another strike against advertisers who use celebrity names and photographs without permission, Sacha Baron Cohen recently sued Solar Therapeutics, a cannabis products company, seeking at least $9 million.[1] In this case, the defendant used a photograph of Baron Cohen’s widely recognized character Borat, and his trademark expression “Very Nice!,” […]
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