Case Comments | Suffolk Law Review

Trademark Law—Federal Circuit Holds En Banc That Excluding Disparaging Trademarks Violates First Amendment—In re Tam, 808 F.3d 1321 (Fed. Cir. 2015) (en banc)

Jan 11, 2017 | Book 4, Case Comments, Print Edition, Volume 49

Congress enacted the Lanham Act for two primary reasons: ensuring public confidence that a product is genuine, and preventing misappropriation of that product’s identifiers by “pirates and cheats.”1 Section 2(a) of the Lanham Act prevents federal registration of...

Business Law—Second Circuit Extends the Dodd-Frank Act’s Anti- Retaliation Protection to Internal Whistleblowers—Berman v. Neo@Ogilvy LLC, 801 F.3d 145 (2d Cir. 2015).

Jan 11, 2017 | Book 4, Case Comments, Print Edition, Volume 49

The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd- Frank Act) reformed federal financial regulation in response to the Great Recession. The Dodd-Frank Act includes incentives and protections for whistleblowers who report violations of federal...