{"id":47580,"date":"2009-11-24T01:26:31","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T06:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091120\/0330007022.shtml"},"modified":"2009-11-24T01:26:31","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T06:26:31","slug":"filmmaker-allowed-to-use-the-name-rin-tin-tin-to-describe-rin-tin-tin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/47580","title":{"rendered":"Filmmaker Allowed To Use The Name Rin Tin Tin To Describe Rin Tin Tin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like the courts got one right concerning a trademark claim involving famed movie dog Rin Tin Tin.  It seems that some movie makers wanted to make a movie about Rin Tin Tin, which seemed reasonable enough.  However, Rin Tin Tin Inc., a company that continues to breed &#8220;Rin Tin Tin dogs&#8221; for movies objected to the use of the name, saying that since they held the trademark on Rin Tin Tin, the movie was infringing.  Thankfully, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1118011581.html?categoryId=13&#038;cs=1\" >the judge disagreed<\/a>, noting that the movie is <i>about<\/i> Rin Tin Tin, and thus was descriptive and a perfectly reasonable use of the name.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091120\/0330007022.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091120\/0330007022.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20091120\/0330007022&#038;op=sharethis\">Email This Story<\/a><br \/>\n <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=3b61c0e6861311bfa71a7534cde2ccd5&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=3b61c0e6861311bfa71a7534cde2ccd5&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2225\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=yPEPAEEazJw:yUebX5Dqt2M:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=yPEPAEEazJw:yUebX5Dqt2M:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=yPEPAEEazJw:yUebX5Dqt2M:c-S6u7MTCTE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?d=c-S6u7MTCTE\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/techdirt\/feed\/~4\/yPEPAEEazJw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like the courts got one right concerning a trademark claim involving famed movie dog Rin Tin Tin. It seems that some movie makers wanted to make a movie about Rin Tin Tin, which seemed reasonable enough. However, Rin Tin Tin Inc., a company that continues to breed &#8220;Rin Tin Tin dogs&#8221; for movies objected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}