Trademark and Unfair Comp.

Boston College Law School

April 23, 2008

Parody, Speech

Mutual of Omaha v. Novak

• MUTANT OF OMAHA

• Mutant Kingdom

• Nuclear Holocaust Insurance

Cliffs Notes v. Bantam

Coca Cola

MGM v. Pink Panther Patrol

Mattel v. MCA

• I’m a Barbie Girl, in a Barbie world; life is plastic; it’s fantastic

• You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere …

• Imagination; Life is your Creation …

• I’m a blond bimbo girl, in a fantasy world ...

Mattel v. Walking Mountain

Yankees Suck

Hypo

Examples

• Gucci• Jordache• Energizer Bunny• Enjoy Coke• Spam• Don’t Leave Home Without It

• L.L. Bean Back to School Catalog

• Dom Perignon• Godzilla• Michelob

• GucchiGoo (diaper bag)• Lardache (large jeans)• Leslie Nielsen (Coors)• Enjoy Cocaine (t-shirt)• Spa’am (muppet)• Don’t Leave Home Without It

(condoms)• L.L. Beam Back to School Sex

Catalog (adult magazine)• Dom Popignon (popcorn)

• Bagzilla (big garbage bags)

• Michelob Oily (spoof ad)

Parks v. LaFace

                              

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