The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday decided to referee a dog fight, agreeing to hear a bid by liquor brand Jack Daniel’s to stop a company that sells dog toys from using designs that parody its trademarked Old No. 7 Black Label Tennessee Whiskey bottle. The justices took up an appeal by Jack Daniel’s Properties Inc, owned by Louisville, Kentucky-based Brown-Forman Corp , of a lower court’s ruling in the trademark dispute that VIP Products LLC’s "Bad Spaniels" toy is an "expressive work" covered by the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment free speech protections.
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