The TTABlog

MAY 2, 2024

The Trademark Reporter has published its "Annual Review of European Trademark Law," with contributions from an impressive roster of authors from across Europe. The volume may be downloaded here. 2 (March-April 2024). Read comments and post your comment here.

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IP Watchdog

APRIL 18, 2024

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today announced a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that will be officially published in the Federal Register tomorrow and that addresses a subset of issues from the controversial April 2023 Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM).

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 15, 2024

Patent and Trademark Office and the U.S. Copyright Office recently published the results of their co-study (on the interplay between non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and intellectual property. By: Womble Bond Dickinson

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 5, 2024

Patent and Trademark Office published its Updated Guidance for Making a Proper Determination of Obviousness ("Guidance") in the Federal Register. On February 27, 2024, the U.S. The stated goal of the Guidance is. By: McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

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Erik K Pelton

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

A recent study, Lessons from USPTO Trademark Prosecution Data, uses data from the USPTO records over four decades to show that working with an attorney improves the odds of success when applying to register a trademark. Lee, published by the International Trademark Association’s Trademark Reporter, is available at [link].

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Erik K Pelton

JULY 5, 2022

The following is an edited transcript of my video The Trademark Scam Decision Tree. Past listeners and viewers of my videos and podcasts will know that from time to time I provide an update and more information about trademark scams, and the time has come once again. Patent and Trademark Office and their logos.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 10, 2022

Introduction - On January 5, 2022, the United States Patent & Trademark Office (the “USPTO”) published a Notice to the Federal Register detailing a new administrative process established by the Commissioner of Trademarks to investigate improper submissions filed with the USPTO in trademark matters.1

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Erik K Pelton

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The following is an edited transcript of our video The WIPO Madrid Protocol’s International Trademark Filing System Part 2. [ The following is an edited transcript of our video The WIPO Madrid Protocol’s International Trademark Filing System Part 2. [ For Part 1, see here. For Part 1, see here. For Part 1, see here.

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Velocity of Content

JULY 24, 2023

Now, TikTok may have a challenge for publishers. In May, TikTok’s China-based parent company, ByteDance, sought a trademark for its own book publishing imprint, to be called 8th Note Press. TechCrunch and others have reported the fledgling publisher is approaching self-published romance authors with offers for book deals.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

I’m pleased to share the final published version of my article, “ A SAD Scheme of Abusive Intellectual Property Litigation.” Prior Blog Posts on the SAD Scheme In a SAD Scheme Case, Court Rejects Injunction Over “Emoji” Trademark Schedule A (SAD Scheme) Plaintiff Sanctioned for “Fraud on the Court”–Xped v.

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BYU Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

On August 13, 2021, McGraw Hill LLC; Bedford, Freeman & Worth Publishing Group, LLC d/b/a Macmillan Learning; Cengage Learning, Inc.; collectively, the “Publishers”) filed a lawsuit against Radius International, Inc. The Publishers also assert that Radius “had knowledge that the textbooks it distributed. Elsevier Inc.;

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IP Law 360

JUNE 15, 2023

A Washington federal judge on Thursday put on hold a trademark battle between Dungeons & Dragons publisher Wizards of the West Coast and a rival game maker, which has recently filed for bankruptcy in a separate court.

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JD Supra Law

MAY 9, 2024

On April 11, 2024, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO or Office) published new guidance on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) based tools in connection with preparing and prosecuting patent and trademark applications, and other filings before the USPTO.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

On 12 February 2024, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced with a press release the publication of its Inventorship Guidance for AI-Assisted Inventions (Guidance). The Guidance has been published and will be effective from 13 February 2024. The image of the cat has been generated with DeepAI

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Patent Trademark Blog

JANUARY 9, 2023

What does trademark allowance rate mean? With so many options for trademark filing services, how do you compare one trademark service to another? One way to determine a trademark attorney’s track record is to look at the trademark allowance rate. How does my trademark track record compare to others?

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IP Law 360

OCTOBER 4, 2022

has reached a deal to end a copyright and trademark infringement suit brought by a group of educational publishers that accused the e-commerce retailer of knowingly hosting and enabling shop owners to sell pirated digital copies of the publishers' textbooks, testing packets and solution materials, Shopify confirmed Tuesday.

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Erik K Pelton

JANUARY 31, 2022

See 2018: Beware of scam from WTMR – World Trademark Register. See 2021: Beware of latest trademark scam from WTMR, LLC. The “Word Trademark Register” is not any official database or directory. For more information, see: How to avoid being taken by a trademark scam. Is This A Trademark Scam?®.

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Erik K Pelton

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The year saw many trademark stories in the news as backlogs continued at the USPTO even while application filing numbers dropped from their all time highs during the two previous years. Here are the biggest trademark stories of 2022 that we have been following at EMP&A. Celebrity trademark messes. Queen of Christmas.

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Likelihood of Confusion

DECEMBER 4, 2021

Steve Yahn at Editor and Publisher tries to stir up some interest in what should be — search-term advertising and other flavors of the month aside — the trademark story. The post Editor and Publisher: Stop the new trademark dilution bill appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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JD Supra Law

MAY 13, 2024

On May 10, 2024, the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) published a proposed rule under which terminal disclaimers filed to obviate an obviousness-type double patenting (ODP) rejection would limit the patents to a far greater extent.

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Erik K Pelton

JULY 11, 2023

The following is an edited transcript of my video Data Demonstrates the Value of a Trademark Attorney. Published by INTA in their journal The INTA Reporter , you can find it for free online. Published by INTA in their journal The INTA Reporter , you can find it for free online.

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JD Supra Law

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) recently published its final rules implementing provisions of the Trademark Modernization Act of 2020 (TMA). Most changes are effective as of December 18, 2021, but certain changes (i.e., adjustments to the office action response period) won’t go into effect until December 1, 2022.

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IP Watchdog

JUNE 13, 2023

Today, the International Trademark Association (INTA) published an amicus brief filed with the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in a case that should have major implications for the effects of Brexit on EU trademark law.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Works in any of the following fields may be entered in the competition: Օ Trademark law Օ Competition law Օ Antitrust law. The work may be a master’s thesis, doctoral or post-doctoral dissertation, monograph, or other work of a scholarly nature.

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Erik K Pelton

JANUARY 20, 2022

The following is an edited transcript of my video Recent Study Shows How Companies That File Trademarks Are More Profitable. Trademarks generally track the economy. This was based on a significant amount of data collected from the Trademark Office and from publicly traded companies. They become more valuable.

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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 13, 2023

A trademark is used to set one trader’s products and services apart from another. Trademark means: A trademark is a right that is granted for a letter, number, word, phrase, sound, smell, shape, logo, picture and/or aspect of packaging. The more successful a business is the more valuable the trademark becomes.

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The TTABlog

MARCH 26, 2024

The USPTO is proposing to increase many trademark fees in Fiscal Year 2025. The proposal is set forth in a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to be published today (pdf here ). trademark system. Comments are due by May 28th. We considered and analyzed all comments and feedback to create this proposal.

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Erik K Pelton

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

For more on Building a Bold Brand , see my recently published book. An unregistered trademark is unprotected, unfulfilled, and undervalued. The post Peltonism: an unregistered trademark is unprotected, unfulfilled, and undervalued appeared first on Erik M Pelton & Associates, PLLC. For more Peltonisms®, see [link].

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IP Tech Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Is this the time we can really see a change in the fight against Chinese trademark squatters, or are we just adding burdens to legitimate right holders? The China National Intellectual Property Association (CNIPA) has recently published a draft amendment to the Chinese Trademark Law.

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Erik K Pelton

MAY 24, 2021

The following is an edited transcript of my video, Can You Change a Trademark? But what about trademark filings, and whether or not the marks in those filings can change. When a trademark application has been filed or registered at the USPTO, generally only very, very small changes will be allowed. The answer is generally no.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 2, 2023

A quick look at some of the most widely read Trademark Law updates and commentary published on JD Supra throughout 2022. By: Beacon Insights by JD Supra

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) conducted a live meeting for its Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Emerging Technologies (ET) Partnership Series. Key takeaways from the meeting and published materials will be summarized in our Three-Part Blog Series. On September 22, 2022, the U.S. Part Two – Landscape of AI in Biotechnology.

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Corsearch

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In the corporate world, trademark data and industry trends can reveal much about competitive filings and sectoral performance. The focus of this data generally lies in its relevance to the particular portfolio or potential trademarks that they are handling at the time. The Corsearch Trademark Industry Report also reveals key trends.

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Erik K Pelton

JANUARY 12, 2022

The USPTO recently announced, via notice in the Federal Register , that it intends to issue electronic trademark registration certificates, and only will print physical certificates upon request and with a small fee ($25 per copy). 2] The full request for comments was published in the Federal Register in Vol. 238 at page 71249.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 6, 2023

Leonel Lops claims a trademark in the term “Confidence Empire” for shoes. He alleges that YouTube sold items under the “Confidence Empire” brand and published videos from a dance troupe named Confidence Empire (maybe this one ?). The post YouTube Defeats Trademark Lawsuit–Lops v. eBay and Sellify v.

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IP and Legal Filings

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Frank Schechter which says that a common (Generic) name can be registered by anyone, but no one has the exclusive right to that trademark, For instance, the renowned brand Apple has its trademark registered under various classes but the word ‘apple’ diluted under class 29 of the food category.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 15, 2024

This post summarizes a newly published draft regulation (“Draft Regulation”) that, if passed, will amend the Québec Charter of the French Language (“Charter”) and the Regulation respecting the language of commerce and business in certain key areas, such as commercial contract drafting and the use of English-language trademarks.

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