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Trademark Registration Gives a Brand Double Protection

Erik K Pelton

The following is an edited transcript of my video Trademark Registration Provides Double Protection. Trademark registration is such a valuable tool to protect a brand that it actually offers double protection, both before and after an incident occurs, should one happen.

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Trademark Registration: The Whole is Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts

Erik K Pelton

The following is an edited transcript of my video Trademark Registration: The Whole is Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts. And one very important application for our purposes is that when it comes to trademark registration and the protections created by it–the benefits created by it–the sum really is greater than the parts.

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Event reminder - Pharma and Biotech Patent Litigation Summit

The IPKat

New acquisition: Merpel and Girl with a Pearl Earring As The IPKat reported a while ago, on 22-24 January 2024, the Pharma and Biotech Patent Litigation Summit will return to Amsterdam (Netherlands). A UPC Litigation Forum will take place on 22 January too. Speakers include judges from the UK, EPO, USA and the UPC.

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Book Review: Overlapping Intellectual Property Rights (Second Edition)

The IPKat

This Kat is pleased to review the “ Overlapping Intellectual Property rights ”, edited by Neil Wilkof [full disclosure: a member of the IPKat team], Shamnad Basheer, and Irene Calboli (OUP, 2023, 864 pp.). The volume is a beautiful testimony to the work of late Shamnad Basheer, who co-edited the first edition.

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Having Trademark Registration is Like Double Insurance for Your Brand

Erik K Pelton

The following is an edited transcript of my video, Having Trademark Registration is Like Double Insurance for Your Brand. Trademark registration, believe it or not, is just like that insurance and that smoke detector and fire extinguisher for your brand. For all of these reasons, trademark registration at the U.S.

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Pharma and Biotech Patent Litigation Summit returns to Amsterdam with IPKat readers’ discount

The IPKat

Amsterdam Kat The IPKat has learned that on, 22-24 January 2023, the Pharma and Biotech Patent Litigation Summit will return to the Anantara Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky in Amsterdam (Netherlands). A UPC Litigation Forum will take place on 22 January too. By using IPKAT at checkout, a 10% discount in the registration fee will be applied.

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AI Art Registration Denied – The Copyright Review Board Tells Applicant To Gogh Home

IP Tech Blog

Among other things, the Initiative’s portal compiles registration decisions for AI-generated materials. Particularly instructive is a December 11, 2023 decision by the Copyright Review Board affirming the denial of registration to an AI-generated artwork. does not contain enough original human authorship to support a registration.”