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Transfer windows in Poland and across the globe The end of the transfer period, informally referred to as the transfer window, is always exciting for football market participants, media and [...]

A client embroiled in an employment dispute with a former employee once asked me if we could force the employee into arbitration. So, I asked the client for a copy [...]

This time of year, I spend a lot of my time working on Super Bowl-related advertising. So, it seems like a perfect time to blog about football. Is it misleading [...]

This time of year, I spend a lot of my time working on Super Bowl-related advertising. So, it seems like a perfect time to blog about football. Is it misleading [...]

On February 1, 2022 - the first day of Black History Month - Brian Flores, the former head football coach of the Miami Dolphins, filed a class action lawsuit against [...]

Isn't it rich? Roofclaim.com - a website that, as the name suggests, specializes in roof replacements - entered into a four-year sponsorship deal with the Jacksonville Jaguars, beginning with the [...]

When I first heard that a putative class action had been filed in federal court in New York against the NFL, Giants and Jets, I assumed that the claim would [...]

A person called Hardiman has filed a trademark suit against Chelsea Football Club Limited (Chelsea FC) at the Central Jakarta Commercial Court. The case was filed on May 15, 2019. [...]

As the NFL season gets underway, it is interesting to see how certain plays go from fringe status to near-universal. A recent example is the 'run-pass option' that, before finding [...]

Star football players will often have a deal with their club to be paid a salary and receive payment to an onshore or offshore company for use of their image [...]

#WithersWorldCup #WhoWillWin Whether or not you are a football fan, a global event such as the FIFA World Cup 2018 brings together communities from all around the world. Teams with [...]

Two incredible things happened in 1992 for the NFL football team Washington Redskins. It won the Super Bowl and applied to register a trademark Washington Redskins. It has not been [...]

On June 19, the Supreme Court struck down as unconstitutional a provision of the Lanham Act prohibiting federal registration of disparaging trademarks. The Court's ruling in Matal v. Tam, 582 [...]

Unlike, say, mortgage loan officers or computer programmers, the population of professional cheerleaders is relatively small, but an ongoing case involving independent contractor and joint employer issues for one such [...]

As a follow-up to our previous article, the Indianapolis Colts are moving to move venues in a federal class action lawsuit to Indiana. The plaintiff alleges that the beacon technology [...]

On September 29, 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in a case involving the constitutionality of Section 2(a) of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1052(a), which bars the [...]

This month, the Indianapolis Colts, app developer Yinzcam, Inc., and ultrasonic technology provider Lisnr, Inc., were hit with a federal class action lawsuit in Pennsylvania for violating the Electronic Communications [...]

In an advice memorandum issued on September 22, 2016, the National Labor Relations Board's Office of the General Counsel declined to issue a complaint against Northwestern University for certain football [...]

Fall is finally here and football season is well underway. It appears that the clash between free speech and trademark protection is headed to the Super Bowl, but it won't [...]

September has arrived. That can only mean one thing: it's time for college football! Labor Day weekend offered several high-profile games for our viewing pleasure. Number-one ranked Alabama won one [...]

The Chargers are still in San Diego, but is the team moving to Los Angeles? A clue to the organization's intentions may be found in its trademark filings. On January [...]

On October 12, 2015, Steve Sarkisian was fired as head coach of the University of Southern California (USC) football team. While USC contends Sarkisian was fired for 'cause,' there is [...]

Following the March 2015 decision of the AFL Anti-Doping Tribunal (AFL Tribunal) that 34 current and former players of the Essendon Football Club (Essendon FC) did not breach the AFL [...]

The High Court has reminded us that, in order to be effective, significant notices served on counterparties must comply with contractually agreed notice requirements. In a case involving Ticket2Final (T2F), [...]

The Washington Redskins professional football team will soon not only be battling Native Americans over the registrability of the REDSKINS trademark, but will also have to cross swords with the [...]

Action Ink, Inc. v. N.Y. Jets, LLC, 576 Fed. App'x 321 (5th Cir. July 23, 2014) Although football and beer go hand-in-hand, the Jets and Anheuser-Busch have something else in [...]

While the sports analysts can't stop speculating over who will be in the inaugural College Football Playoff National Championship, the BCS is squaring off against the UPSTO over registration of [...]

The Washington Redskins trademark controversy is far from over. Despite the fact that certain news and sports commentators and mainstream newspapers and organizations have announced that they will no longer [...]

On June 18, 2014, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ('TTAB') cancelled six trademark registrations owned on behalf of the Washington Redskins football [...]

UEFA announced on Friday evening that it had come to settlement agreements with nine clubs that had breached the Financial Fair Play (FFP) break-even regulations. To understand the detail of [...]

Frederick E. Bouchat has once again alleged copyright infringement against the Baltimore Ravens and the National Football League (NFL) over the Ravens' 'Flying B Logo' from the mid-1990s. In prior [...]

Keywords: Football Dataco, match data, EU database rights The long-running Football Dataco case, relating to rights in data and infringement on the internet, has now reached the UK Court of [...]

INTRODUCTION The Jersey Court of Appeal (Leeds United Football Club Limited v Weston and Levi [2012] JCA 083) has confirmed the Royal Court's ruling ([2011] JRC 185) that there is [...]

The highest court in the European Union, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) yesterday effectively found against the Football Association Premier League (FAPL). The CJEU ruled that [...]

How many times have we heard the same things: Social media is ubiquitous. Your employees are using social media in increasing numbers and ways. Now, Arian Foster has taken it [...]

Tumisang Keitseng, owner of the Zebras trade mark, has threatened the Botswana Football Association as well as its sponsor All Kasi with legal action regarding the continued use of her [...]

Article by Linda K. McLeod and Brian Westley* 'This article previously appeared in Incontestable Trademark Newsletter - June/July 2011' ABSTRACT The TTAB stated that it will take an active role [...]

FDL put together the schedule of football fixtures for English and Scottish premier and football leagues. Brittens commercially exploited the fixture lists, allegedly without a licence from FDL. This trial [...]