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Top Trademark Trends of 2022

Erik K Pelton

All Rights Reserved. 2019: [link]. It will also be interesting to track how the recent economic uncertainties will impact the number of trademark application filings. © 2022 Erik M. Pelton & Associates, PLLC. Erik Pelton® has been making trademarks bloom since 1999 ® as the founder of Erik M. 2020: [link].

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Top Trademark Trends of 2021 (Meta TMA edition)

Erik K Pelton

All Rights Reserved. 2019: [link]. The USPTO’s key trademarks systems are still not mobile formatted, there is no useful trademark mobile phone app from the USPTO, and the filing forms are archaic by modern standards – perhaps 2022 will bring improvements to those systems. © 2021 Erik M. Pelton & Associates, PLLC.

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Top Trademark Trends of 2020

Erik K Pelton

All Rights Reserved. Past issues of Top Trademark Trends: 2019: [link]. The main story I will be following will be the impact of the fee increases, and whether it results in measurable drops in number of new applications from small businesses, the percentages of registrations renewed, and/or the numbers of appeals filed.

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How to protect your photos from unauthorized use online

CopyrightsWorld

billion photos were stolen daily in 2019. Opportunities for photo infringement are numerous as an infringer need not actively log into a peer-to-peer file-sharing network to infringe; one need only right-click an image found via an online search. For photographers and image creators, digital photos’ infringement is a cruel reality.

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Meeting of the Minds: The Price of Recklessness: Disgorgement of Pro?ts in a Post-Romag World

The IP Law Blog

All rights reserved. There are some signs that recent reforms to the Chinese intellectual property right enforcement system are improving results for foreign rights holders. Judgments in China , WINSTON & STRAWN LLP (July 30, 2019), [link] enforcing-us-judgments-in-china.html. 2019), [link].

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Protecting Commercial AI Rights Is Harder Than You Think – EU Edition

Velocity of Content

In the quaint days of 2019, when the EU issued its Digital Single Market Copyright Directive (DSM) , much attention was focused on issues such as a news publishers’ right and the obligations of platforms to take down infringing materials. What about the words “all rights reserved?” Is a copyright notice sufficient?

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Principal Jeremy Saks Authors The National Law Journal Article, “LGBTQ in the Federal Judiciary: A Long Way to Go for Representation”

Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

While Big Law generally performs well on the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index—some years even coming in as the top industry—underrepresentation remains widespread, and it can be difficult to gauge the true strength of a law firm’s culture of inclusion using objective criteria. All rights reserved.