American Airlines has sued the Acting Register of the U.S. Copyright Office seeking judicial review of the Copyright Office’s decision to reject American’s application to register its award-winning corporate logo, known as the Flight Symbol. Registration of the Flight Symbol has been in a holding pattern since 2016 when American’s first application to the U.S. Copyright Office was grounded for lack of creativity. While the Copyright Office acknowledges that only a “modicum of creativity is necessary”[i] to register a work under the Copyright Act, it ruled that the Flight Symbol fails to meet this minimal standard.[ii] American continued to challenge… Read more