In the recent but now famous U.S. Supreme Court case of Iancu v. Brunetti, the mark in question was, as discussed at oral argument, a homonym of the past participle of a well known profanity — “F.U.C.T.” (which was purportedly meant to be pronounced by its initials). One of the niceties of both the oral argument and…
A U.S. Supreme Court decision interpreting what’s necessary to sue under the Copyright Act is both very interesting, and very important. For years, the federal Courts of Appeal have been divided into two schools of thought regarding when a copyright holder has standing to sue for infringement: Those Circuit Courts (like the Second Circuit, presiding…