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6 July 2022TrademarksMuireann Bolger

Applying the Rogers test: A step too far?

More than three decades ago, silver screen legend Ginger Rogers unwittingly gave her name to a landmark legal doctrine aimed at balancing trademark rights and free speech rights when it comes to ‘expressive works’.

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