Laws and Regulations

Shenendehowa High School athletic director Chris Culnan received two boxes of promotional T-shirts with the instructions to throw them into the crowd at football games and read the names of local businesses who sponsored the shirts. Culnan, however, had no idea the shirts were coming. He didn’t order them...

The North Face is suing a Raleigh-based T-shirt seller doing business as "The Trap Face" for trademark infringement. Besides similarities in the font and colors, the biggest problem for The North Face is that, in this instance, “trap” refers to the practice of selling illegal drugs...

The University of North Carolina has partnered with The Brandr Group to facilitate student-athletes’ branding efforts. According to Forbes, The Brandr Group will “develop licensing opportunities on behalf of the student-athletes in apparel and non-apparel categories, and other co-branded sponsorships.”...

A U.S. Supreme Court decision is bringing the idea of college athletes being able to profit from their name, image and likeness closer to reality. That could present new business opportunities for branded merchandise companies, though the rules—and the path forward—are still fairly unclear...

Using phrases like “Olympic,” “Olympiad,” “Paralympic,” “Pan-American,” or just about anything related to the U.S. presence at the Olympics creates a risk of infringing on the Olympics' intellectual property. There are some obvious ones, but some are less obvious. For example...

Alaska Airlines’ uniform allows for transgender employees to wear uniforms that conform to their gender identity, and includes different pieces to assemble a uniform outfit. But each set is given the “male” or “female” binary, and employees cannot mix a “female” piece with a “male” outfit, such as a scarf or tie...

On the heels of last week’s House action on postal reform, the Senate this week got into the game by introducing companion legislation.

Look, the rapper Warchyld just wanted to drive around New York City in his branded Hummer SUV complete with gigantic T-shirt cannon on top. Is that such a crime? The NYPD thought so, and pulled Warchyld over last month as he drove through Midtown Manhattan...

New York State Assemblywoman Patricia Fahy introduced legislation to implement a recycling program for cannabis packaging. New York City was on the forefront of limiting single-use plastics like bags and water bottles, so limiting single-use cannabis packaging before it hits circulation makes sense...

Kettering Health Network is suing a Fully Promoted franchisee for more than $1.2 million after the company allegedly failed to deliver masks Kettering ordered last spring, and then finally delivered counterfeit N95 masks in December. Kettering Health filed the lawsuit on May 3 against Jade Designs LLC, dba Fully Promoted...