SCOTUS Decides the Jack Daniel’s Dog Poop Case: No Jokes, Just Basic Trademark Principles. Story by Adam Garson • 1y. T he U.S. Supreme Court has rendered only 15 trademark opinions since 1924.

Sample quote from their brief: “Jack Daniel’s loves dogs and appreciates a good joke as much as anyone. But Jack Daniel’s likes its customers even more, and doesn’t want them confused or ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday delved into the complexities of federal trademark law in a case concerning a poop-themed dog toy that resembles a Jack Daniel’s bottle, at times erupting into ...

The company argues that it isn’t selling whiskey or even using Jack Daniel’s in any way; the Bad Spaniels toy only mimicked the bottle enough for people to get the joke. The legal battle over the ...

The Supreme Court is taking up a lawsuit from Jack Daniel's over dog toys featuring poop jokes. The outcome could change how the law looks at parody and IP infringement.

A bottle of Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey is displayed next to a Bad Spaniels dog toy. AP “Jack Daniel’s loves dogs and appreciates a good joke as much as anyone.

“VIP’s Bad Spaniels dog toys are unambiguously a joke, one that Jack Daniel’s doesn’t appreciate,” she wrote in a friend-of-the-court brief filed in an earlier phase of the case.

As it argues in its brief: "Jack Daniel's loves dogs and appreciates a good joke as much as anyone. But Jack Daniel's likes its customers even more, and doesn't want them confused or associating ...

The same bad audience could await the defendant in Jack Daniel’s Properties Inc. v. VIP Products LLC. The Supreme Court just accepted a case involving a tongue-in-cheek dog chew toy made to ...

Last month, in a case "about dog toys and whiskey," the Supreme Court weakened—but did not eliminate—First Amendment protections for parody use of others' trademarks (Jack Daniel's Properties ...