[Random-bits] Skippy.com

[James Love]

Thanks for John Berryhill for this pointer.

Cites from CPC International v. Skippy Inc. 55 USPQ2d 1033

[I]f a trademark owner could 'enjoin the use of his mark in a
non-commercial context found to be negative or offensive, then a
corporation could shield itself from criticism by forbidding the use of
its name in commentaries critical of its conduct' LL. Bean Inc. v. Drake
Publishers Inc., 811 F2d 26, 33 (1st Cir. 1987)
...

It is important that trademarks not be 'transformed from rights against
unfair competition to rights to control language'. Mark A. Lemley, The
Modern Lanham Act and the Death of Common Sense, 108 Yale L.J. 1687
(1999)


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http://www.skippy.com/

    Welcome to Skippy.com
Home of Percy Crosby's Lovable Cartoon "SKIPPY"

6/5/00 - Panel Finds Skippy Trademark Ruling Hurt Free
              Speech - Dow Jones Report

U.S. Fourth Circuit Decision, June 2, 2000
Read the Story Bestfoods Tried To Suppress with A Court
                     Order

   Lower Court Denies Bestfoods Motion to Silence the Real Skippy

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