Erik K Pelton

MAY 30, 2022

30The following is a transcript of my video Red Flags for Any Trademark Application. Because it’s related to social media, I only learned about it because of my children and my family, but a lot of posts about red flags use the red flag icon or emoji, and then warning signs about a particular topic. Patent & Trademark Office.

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Erik K Pelton

DECEMBER 28, 2020

And trademarks have been along for the ride. While there were not, in my opinion, any major court developments affecting trademark owners, there have been many other events and changes that have impacted the world of trademarks over the past 12 months. The year’s biggest story impacted trademarks in a few different ways.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 11, 2023

In a precedential decision, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (the “Board”) reversed six refusals to register The New York Times Company’s (the “Times”) names of its newspaper columns, THE NEW OLD AGE, A GOOD APPETITE, HUNGRY CITY, WORK FRIEND, OFF THE SHELF, and LIKE A BOSS (the “Marks”).

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DuetsBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Seemed like a great blog topic, for some day, given my distaste for the USPTO’s insatiable appetite for fusing informational refusals with trademark incapability. Since consumer perception controls trademark capability , favoring a review of the facts and circumstances (instead of incapability rules ) makes more sense to me.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Being the IP nerd I am, I had to know the trademark situation for “Mom’s Spaghetti.” I was able to find that one of the companies partnered in the restaurant venture, likely sensing its “one shot,” submitted a trademark application for “Mom’s Spaghetti” in December 2018.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 12, 2021

The so-called “conditional irresponsibility” of online content-sharing service providers (OCSSPs) with regards to copyright infringements is a never-ending, vexing, and daunting topic not only for scholars (see here , here , here and here ), but also for the European Court of Justice itself (CJEU). by Tito Rendas. € by Martin Senftleben. €

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The TTABlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

click on photo for larger picture) “The title of a single creative work, such as a book, is not considered to be a trademark, and is therefore unregistrable.” Unlike a copyright that has a limited term, a trademark can endure for as long as the trademark is used. In re MCDM Prods., LLC , 2022 USPQ2d 227, at *2 (TTAB 2022).

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