Trader Joe’s Ruling Signals Healthy Litigation Prospects for Trademark Plaintiffs
In a rare instance of trademarks colliding with labor law, Trader Joe’s sued its own labor union for trademark infringement! Read more my latest article published October 1, 2025 on IP Watchdog. Trader Joe’s sued the labor union, called Trader Joe’s United, for...
Pepperdine University Makes ‘Waves’ with Emergency Trademark Motion Against Netflix
Check out my article published March 11, 2025 on the "IP Watchdog" legal news website! This article discusses the early stages of Pepperdine University's trademark infringement lawsuit against Netflix. Filed in February 2025 one week before the scheduled release of...
Jack Daniel’s Continues, with Trademark Dilution as the New Battleground
Check out my article published October 15, 2024 on the "IP Watchdog" legal news website! This article was published as a predictive piece prior to the trial court’s long-awaited ruling in January 2025 in Jack Daniel’s v. VIP Products. The parties' decade-long...
Kat Von D Meets Tiger King: Has Warhol Destroyed Transformative Fair Use?
Check out my article published June 11, 2024 on the IP Watchdog legal news website! Celebrity tattoo artist Kat Von D recreated a photograph of a famous musician in ink on her client’s arm and posted photos of the process online. Netflix docuseries “Tiger King”...
U.S. Supreme Court Strengthens Copyright Owners’ Ability to Prosecute Late-Discovered Infringements
Copyright owners are the winners of the U.S. Supreme Court’s latest copyright ruling in Warner Chappell Music, Inc. v. Nealy. Issued May 9, 2024, the Nealy ruling preserves legal benefits for copyright owners who fail to file suit within the traditional three-year...
Warhol v. Goldsmith: Supreme Court Clarifies ‘Prince’-iples of Copyright Fair Use in New Ruling
Andy Warhol’s adaptation of Lynn Goldsmith’s 1981 photograph of musician Prince was copyright infringement and not fair use, according to the Supreme Court in its May 2023 opinion authored by Justice Sotomayor.