Prior to the Ninth Circuit’s reversal, Jack Daniel’s submitted likelihood of confusion survey evidence to the district court that convinced the court that consumers were likely to be confused about the source of the Bad Spaniels dog toy.
Protecting your investment through registering and enforcing trademark plays a role, Without proper protection, your trademark, and by extension, your brand, may be vulnerable to infringement or dilution by competitors, resulting in loss of customers, revenue, and reputation
It’s critical for Vietnam to focus on promoting intellectual property rights for areas associated with agricultural products which would enable farm produce to go far in international markets.
Hermes v. Rothschild is one of the first cases which deals with IP rights of proprietors in the Metaverse and discusses the fine line between an art being creativity of an artist or a recipe for confusion and dilution.