Summary: The Supreme Court Thursday ruled in favor of Jack Daniel’s in a case centering on whether parodies require an exception to traditional trademark protections. The case, Jack Daniel’s Properties v. VIP Products, involved VIP’s spoof of a Jack Daniel’s bottle of whiskey. The following expert from Duke Law School is available to comment on the case and pending decision.
Bio:
Jennifer Jenkins is an expert on trademark and copyright law and teaches intellectual property at Duke University School of Law, where she is a clinical professor of law and director of Duke’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain.
jenkins@law.duke.edu
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