Mealey's ( August 11, 2026, 8:43 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — In the latest chapter in a long-running saga between Jack Daniel’s Properties Inc. (JDPI) and a dog toy manufacturer that has already borne an important U.S. Supreme Court decision, a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel vacated an Arizona judge’s permanent injunction in favor of the liquor maker, finding that while it had proved that its name and registered marks were famous and similar to dog toy marks parodying its own, it had failed to produce nonspeculative evidence that the “obvious parody” was likely to harm JDPI’s reputation....