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Record Label Trademark: What's the Proper Class?

Dear Rich IP Blog

Dear Rich: I am trying to trademark my record label name, but am stuck on which class of goods best describes what I want to sell as a label. I plan on selling vinyl records and digital downloads. Which goods class would be most appropriate? International Class 009 (IC 009 - Electrical and Scientific Apparatus) is your best choice if you are applying to federally register your record label trademark.

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The Tenant Safe Harbor Act Provides Relief to Residents Who Cannot Pay Rent Due to the Pandemic

GDB Firm Blog

While the court-imposed moratorium on all evictions is still in effect, the recently adopted Senate Bill S8192B (the "Tenant Safe Harbor Act") provides specific relief for residential tenants who cannot pay rent that accrued or becomes due during the COVID-19 covered period.

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In Two Life Sciences Cases, the Supreme Court Declines to Address the Constitutionality of IPRs of Pre-AIA Patents

Bio Law Blog

Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the constitutionality of inter partes review proceedings (IPRs) challenging patents issued before the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA). The AIA, enacted in September 2011, introduced IPRs and other post-grant review proceedings enabling third parties to challenge the validity of issued patents before the Patent Office under a lower standard of proof than in district court.

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Generic.com Terms Are Not Per Se Generic

KMK Blog

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled today that a generic word like “booking” combined with “ com” can achieve trademark registration even if the generic word alone cannot. The opinion , authored by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, rejected the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s nearly per se argument that “generic.com” terms are ineligible for trademark registration regardless of consumer perception evidence. “Whether any given ‘generic.com’ term

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Software Composition Analysis: The New Armor for Your Cybersecurity

Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera

Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?

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IP and the Open Covid Pledge

IP Spotlight

Are you developing new technologies, treatments or other inventions that are useful to combat the COVID-19 epidemic? If so, my colleagues Gunjan Agarwal and Chipo Jolibois recently wrote a useful article discussing the Open COVID Pledge and how it can be used when patenting COVID-19-related inventions. For the full article on Law360 , click here.

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Booking.com Court Decision: Consumer Perception is "Key" in Trademark Law

GDB Firm Blog

Yesterday, the United States Supreme Court issued a decision in the Booking.com case.