It may come as some surprise that embedded within the over 5,500-pages of the recent COVID-19 relief and government funding bill (the Consolidated Appropriations Act) are several (not-insubstantial) changes to copyright and...more
1/11/2021
/ CASE Act ,
Consolidated Appropriations Act (CAA) ,
Copyright ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
DMCA ,
Ex Partes Reexamination ,
Expungement ,
Federal Funding ,
Lanham Act ,
Relief Measures ,
Trademark Infringement ,
Trademark Modernization Act (TMA) ,
Trademarks ,
USPTO
Is a plaintiff in a trademark infringement suit required to show that a defendant willfully infringed the plaintiff’s trademark as a precondition to an award of defendant’s profits?
This is an important, age-old, yes-or-no...more
4/30/2020
/ § 1125(a) ,
§ 1125(c) ,
Appeals ,
Burden of Proof ,
Charge-Filing Preconditions ,
Compensatory Awards ,
Dilution ,
Lanham Act ,
Lost Profits ,
Remand ,
Remedies ,
Romag Fasteners v Fossil ,
SCOTUS ,
Trademark Infringement ,
Trademark Litigation ,
Trademarks ,
Vacated ,
Willful Infringement