Jack Daniel's Properties, Inc. v. VIP Products LLC

Jack Daniel's Properties, Inc. v. VIP Products LLC, 599 U.S. 140 (2023), was a United States Supreme Court case involving parody and trademark law.

Among their line is a series of "Silly Squeakers": dog toys that are shaped and look like well known alcoholic beverages, but using dog-related puns.

One of these was a product called "Bad Spaniels" which was shaped similarly to the Jack Daniel's whiskey bottle and label, with the dog puns in certain places, such as replacing the "Old No.

The Ninth Circuit agreed that a more demanding test was required to dismiss the dog toy as an expressive work covered by the First Amendment.

[2] Jack Daniel's filed a petition for a writ of certiorari in the Supreme Court, asking it to hear the case.

Dog toys, including Silly Squeakers, "Bad Spaniels – The Old No. 2 – on your Tennessee carpet" and others