What were the consequences of the Federal Trademark Dilution Act of 1995 (FTDA)?
What will be an ideal response?
A number of states passed trademark dilution laws, which prohibited the use of "distinctive" or "famous" trademarks, such as McDonald's, even without a showing of consumer confusion. In 1995, Congress made similar protection available at the federal level by passing the Federal Trademark Dilution Act of 1995 (FTDA). In one of the first cases decided under this law, the court said that the protection available under this act extended not just to identical marks but also to similar marks. In that case, Ringling Brothers-Barnum & Bailey challenged Utah's use of the slogan "The Greatest Snow on Earth" as diluting its famous slogan, "The Greatest Show on Earth." In denying Utah's motion to dismiss because the slogans were not identical, the court said that the marks need not be identical.
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