article thumbnail

Top Trademark Trends of 2022

Erik K Pelton

And the number of active trademark registrations in the USPTO database is larger than ever. Additionally, since late December 2021, when new procedures went into effect, the USPTO has received around 100 expungement petitions and about 100 re-examination petitions to get rid of registrations for marks that are allegedly not in use.

Trademark 130
article thumbnail

How to protect your photos from unauthorized use online

CopyrightsWorld

Copyright infringement of digital photos differs in important ways from infringement in the markets of music and movies. 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.

article thumbnail

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

The IP Law Blog

All rights reserved. This information or any portion thereof may not be copied or disseminated in any form or by any means or stored in an electronic database or retrieval system without the express written consent of the American Bar Association or the copyright holder. Published in Landslide , Vol.