Jack Daniels Properties, the corporate owner of trademarks associated with Jack Daniels, a brand of whiskey, won a high profile intellectual property case this term. The case involved a dog toy in the shape of a bottle of whiskey, with markings that reference Jack Daniels in a way that ALSO references dog poop. For example, the pseudo-bottle bears a rhyming code name, "Bad Spaniels." Where a bottle of JD whiskey bears the familiar description "Old No. 7 Brand Tennessee Sour Mash Whiskey" the dog-toy doppelganger says " The old No 2 on your Tennessee carpet." Whether you find punning poop jokes funny is a matter of taste. The "Bad Spaniels" decision is now a matter for the law books. The district court granted summary judgment to the dog-toy makers. The appeals court affirmed that judgment and JD appealed. The defenders of the brand won before SCOTUS, which offered its own reading of the law and remanded for further cons...