Playboy Enterprises, Inc. v. Welles
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Playboy Enterprises, Inc. v. Welles, 279 F.3d 796 (9th Cir., 2002), was a ruling at the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The ruling was an important early precedent on the nominative use of trademarked terms for self-identification on the World Wide Web.
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Playboy Enterprises, Inc. v. Welles | |
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Court | United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit |
Argued | September 11, 2001 |
Decided | February 1, 2002 |
Citation(s) | 279 F.3d 796 |
Holding | |
Use of a trademarked term for metatags at a website, and for advertising one's affiliations for self-identification, are nominative use and not a violation of American trademark law. | |
Court membership | |
Judge(s) sitting | Betty Binns Fletcher, Thomas G. Nelson, Marsha Berzon |
Case opinions | |
Majority | Thomas G. Nelson |
Keywords | |
trademark infringement, trademark dilution, metatags, cyberlaw |
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