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azrights
NOVEMBER 17, 2021
As trademarks give their owners a monopoly right to identify their products or services an important caveat about them is that they must be distinctive. For example, Pizza Express is trademarked. Hence Pizza Hut is also a registered trademark.
Erik K Pelton
OCTOBER 21, 2021
The post What makes a trademark law firm successful? A lot of elements going into making our firm what we are and making it successful. More than just inputs and outputs, work and fees.
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Kashishipr
MAY 11, 2022
A trademark refers to a recognizable expression, design, or sign uniquely identifying the products or services of a specific source and differentiating them from those of others. A trademark may be located on the packaging, voucher, label, or the product itself.
JD Supra Law
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
McDermott Partner Sarah Bro takes a look at developments shaping trademark law. By: McDermott Will & Emery
The IPKat
JULY 20, 2021
We soon learn that "Trademark Law Reform" refers to aspirations to tackle contemporary problems in trade mark law worldwide, whether by means of legislative overhaul or not, put to paper by some of the world's leading experts.
43(B)log
JUNE 24, 2022
Relationship to use as a trademark; symmetry b/t types of use that might allow acquisition of rights v. It’s always been clear to McKenna that TM use is everywhere in TM law, but almost always implicit or found in its absence. Profound question for US law. conferences trademark
JD Supra Law
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
Trademarks (like Gen Z), keeping us all hip.
Likelihood of Confusion
OCTOBER 13, 2021
The post Best of 2013: WAL-ZYR versus ZYRTEC: Allergic to legislating trademark law? Private Brands and Trademarks Private brands Wal-Zyr ZyrtecFirst published February 14, 2013. I have no problem using the TTABlog for a blog launching point every week.
Canadian Intellectual Property Blog
JUNE 22, 2022
Bill 96 will have a significant impact on the use of English trademarks in the Province of Québec. Currently, it takes approximately two years for a trademark application to mature to registration in Canada. Bill 96 Quebec Quebec Government Trademarks
Patently-O
NOVEMBER 29, 2021
This is a trademark case. Dollar Financial holds registered trademarks for MONEY MART – the name it uses for its payday and title loan venders as well as pawn shops and pawn brokerages. Brittex Financial v. Dollar Financial ( Fed. 2021 ).
IP Intelligence
MAY 2, 2022
In Abitron , the Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit allowed the plaintiff trademark owner to recover damages not only for the defendants’ sales of infringing products in the U.S., trademark law worldwide to purely foreign sales.” [6].
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 27, 2022
2021 offered many lessons to Canadian trademark owners including: reminders of the challenges of enforcing inherently weak trademarks and the importance and benefits of registering IP rights at the Canadian border.
IP Law 360
APRIL 6, 2022
New York federal judges who are overseeing Nike's suit against resale marketplace StockX and Hermes' case against a Los Angeles designer are on track to be the first to decide whether nonfungible tokens can infringe trademarks for physical goods
Likelihood of Confusion
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
Kirkpatrick of Pilsbury Winthrop, who has — through the Practising Law Institute — has come out with the second edition of Likelihood of. The post Likelihood of Confusion in Trademark Law: Richard Kirkpatrick wrote the book (again) appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™. [Revised — RDC.] Congratulations to Richard K.
IP Blog
JUNE 29, 2021
Foreign individuals or organizations filing for trademark registration in Pakistan may find themselves curious when faced with the obligation to indicate the mark's "date of first use" in their application. Trademarks
Intellectual Property Brief
APRIL 26, 2021
The increasing number of dog-related trademark claims raises an interesting question of brand collaboration. Daily Blog Trademark #dogs #intellectualProperty #jackdaniels #louisvuitton #tootsiepop
JIPEL Copyright Blog
DECEMBER 15, 2021
Trademark litigation in the fashion world is not a novel concept. For decades, Adidas has been engaging in a long list of trademark infringement cases in the US and across the world. Fashion JIPEL Blog 2021-2022 Trademark
Likelihood of Confusion
JUNE 24, 2022
This is an important trademarks / free speech case. Free Expression Trademarks and trademark law Vans v. I got in on an edge of it! The post Amicus Brief filed in Vans v. MSCHF appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™. MSCHF
The TTABlog
MARCH 7, 2022
Mikos takes the USPTO to task in his recent Vanderbilt Law Review article, "Unauthorized and Unwise: The Lawful Use Requirement in Trademark Law" (pdf here ). There is no requirement of lawful use in the Lahnam Act and, he argues, there shouldn't be.
JD Supra Law
MAY 3, 2022
In Abitron, the Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit allowed the plaintiff trademark owner to recover damages not only for the defendants’ sales of infringing products in the U.S.,
LexBlog IP
MAY 10, 2022
By Deborah A. Gubernick and Michelle Emeterio. Please click here to see the article. Intellectual Property
LexBlog IP
MAY 2, 2022
In Abitron , the Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit allowed the plaintiff trademark owner to recover damages not only for the defendants’ sales of infringing products in the U.S., trademark law worldwide to purely foreign sales.” [6].
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 12, 2022
Introduction - On December 27, 2020, the Trademark Modernization Act of 2020 (“TMA”) became law after it passed Congress and was signed by the President as part of the year-end Consolidated Appropriations Act for 2021.
GDB Firm Blog
JULY 1, 2020
Yesterday, the United States Supreme Court issued a decision in the Booking.com case
IP Blog
SEPTEMBER 22, 2020
More than two years ago, Romanian legislators introduced the initial draft of Law 112 in an effort to integrate the European Union (EU) 2015 Trademark Directive (Directive 2015/2436) with national law. Trademarks
JD Supra Law
DECEMBER 2, 2021
Quentin Tarantino, director of the 1994 Pulp Fiction movie, announced in a press release on November 2, 2021 that he was offering uncut, exclusive scenes to the movie as “secret NFTs.” He and his organization launched a “Tarantino NFTs” Twitter account and website, [link] for the sale.
Likelihood of Confusion
MAY 13, 2022
Trademarks and trademark law Hotel California trademarkThe Eagles are suing the owners of a Mexican hotel named Hotel California, claiming it’s capitalizing off the band’s hit song of the same name. The band filed.
IP Watchdog
APRIL 4, 2022
On February 14, 2022, the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) issued a notice regarding “clout-chasing” trademark applications or registrations (the “Notice”). Similar bad-faith trademark applications have not been uncommon throughout CNIPA’s history.
The TTABlog
MARCH 2, 2022
Slade and yours truly, The TTABlogger , will present a webinar entitled "What Non-US Practitioners Need to Know About US Trademark Law and the Recent Trademark Modernization Act ("TMA")," on March 10th from Noon to 1 PM EST , sponsored by Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.
The TTABlog
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
Slade and yours truly, The TTABlogger , will present a webinar entitled "What Non-US Practitioners Need to Know About US Trademark Law and the Recent Trademark Modernization Act ("TMA")," on March 10th from Noon to 1 PM EST , sponsored by Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.
Likelihood of Confusion
JUNE 4, 2022
Thorne, legal marketing wordsmith extraordinaire, wonders: Why would a court opinion use the magic ® symbol to refer to one registered trademark and not others? Trademark registration Brand Management and Branding Trademarks and trademark law
Likelihood of Confusion
SEPTEMBER 19, 2021
Startups Brand Management and Branding NDA's Trademark not a Verb Trademarks and trademark lawEvery lawyer who practices in the intellectual property area is asked frequently how to go about protecting a unique or creative idea that someone fears is at risk of being.
Likelihood of Confusion
SEPTEMBER 22, 2021
The post Trademarks: The IP that isn’t IP appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™. Trademarks and trademark law Ed Timberlake Intellectual PropertyI have asked, begged, cajoled and — well, no I haven’t threatened Ed Timberlake; who could do that?
Likelihood of Confusion
MAY 21, 2022
I figured I must have written somewhere about that PTO trademark bullying thing — or if I didn’t, I am sure I linked to someone who did — well, I. The post The entrepreneurship of trademark bullying appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.
Likelihood of Confusion
MARCH 2, 2022
The post Old trademarks never die… appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™. Brand Management and Branding Trademarks and trademark lawThey just fade away. Mostly. Originally posted 2013-10-29 12:56:20. Republished by Blog Post Promoter.
Likelihood of Confusion
SEPTEMBER 11, 2021
Nick Daly drops me a note to the effect that one Jay-Z, gazillionaire rhyming scatologist, has been sued by a professional perspirer and leaping stage goon called Diamond Dallas Page — The post Trademark rights in interdigitization appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.
43(B)log
JUNE 24, 2022
Does the ornamentality doctrine have doctrinal purchase elsewhere in trademark law? Is the invocation of ornamentality in the infringement context simply a re-assertion of the supposed trademark use doctrine? Which is the same as the problem of market definition, with which TM law has long grappled unsuccessfully and largely silently. Another way to say it: Carol Rose’s Crystals and Mud in property law. But in German law TM use is a requirement for infringement.
Likelihood of Confusion
APRIL 29, 2022
Remember the Washington Redskins trademark tussle? Section 2(a) PTO Practice Redskins Scandalous or offensive marks Trademarks and trademark lawCNBC reports that it’s back — again — and better than ever.
Likelihood of Confusion
AUGUST 11, 2021
I’ve got trademark use on the brain! Maybe it’s the Belmora effect — the result of living in a world in which use of a trademark in. The post Phantoms, zombies and the big problem with trademark use (Best of 2017) appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.
Likelihood of Confusion
APRIL 23, 2022
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