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Knobbe Martens

Of Broccolini and Branding: Don't Let Your Trademark Wilt

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Congratulations on successfully trademarking your product or brand! Now it’s crucial to protect that investment through diligent trademark oversight and enforcement. This involves actively monitoring for, and taking...more

Erise IP

What’s Trending in Trademarks, August 2024: What Constitutes an Abandoned Mark? How Famous is Cognac?

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Every month, Erise’s trademark attorneys review the latest developments at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, in the courts, and across the corporate world to bring you the stories that you should know about: Fourth...more

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Understanding the importance of Trade Dress Protection for your distinct and non-functional product designs and packaging

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What is the difference between a traditional trademark and trade dress protection? Traditional Trademarks - According to the USPTO - A trademark can be any word, phrase, symbol, design, or a combination of these things...more

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What Barbenheimer Can Teach Us About Intellectual Property

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Barbenheimer is a new term for consecutively watching the movies “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer.”  In honor thereof, we present the Barbenheimer Legal Alert. Did you know Mattel sued, and lost, to stop the “Barbie Girl” song?...more

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MarkIt to Market® - June 2023

Thank you for reading the June 2023 issue of Sterne Kessler's MarkIt to Market® newsletter. This month, we begin a three-part series that closely examines ways to lose trademark rights; share an article that examines the...more

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Trade Dress: What It Is and How to Protect It

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I. Trade Dress Is Either a Trademark or Service Mark. “Trade dress” functions as either a trademark or service mark. A “trademark” is any word, term, phase, symbol, logo, design, shape, tag line, background, color, scent,...more

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JONES DAY TALKS®: Women in IP: 2020 in Review and a Look Toward 2021

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Jones Day's Meredith Wilkes and Anna Raimer discuss 2020's most significant developments in trademark law and preview what's to come in 2021, including possible progress in Washington on the highly anticipated Trademark...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

TiVo Proves More than 15 Minutes of Fame to Succeed on Trademark Dilution Claim

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Andy Warhol once famously commented that “In the future everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes.” For trademarks, fifteen minutes of fame is not sufficient to assert a trademark dilution claim. ...more

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Stone Brewing Fires The Shot Heard Round The Brewing World

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The fight between craft brewers and Big Beer (i.e. MillerCoors & Budweiser) has been ongoing for years. Ever since craft beer came to prominence in the late ‘90s, it has been stealing Big Beer’s share of the marketplace. In...more

Fish & Richardson

Distillations: Madonna is Not Impressed

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Any business marketing a new consumer product wants to give their creation a snappy and memorable name, and craft brewers in particular seem especially fond of names with puns and pop culture references. But wittiness, alas,...more

Fenwick & West LLP

Intellectual Property Bulletin - Summer 2016

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Supreme Court Expands Discretion to Award Enhanced Damages for Patent Infringement and Eliminates the Federal Circuit’s ‘Seagate Test’ - In Halo Electronics, Inc. v. Pulse Electronics, Inc., the U.S. Supreme Court...more

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Trademark Review | February 2016

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The Federal Circuit Considers Constitutionality of Refusal to Register Scandalous and Immoral Marks - The Lanham Act prohibits registration of marks that are defamatory, scandalous or immoral. Last month, in In re Tam,...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

The Katten Kattwalk - Issue 08

The Katten Kattwalk discusses legal issues in the fashion industry affecting the trademarks, patents and copyrights associated with companies, brands and products. Letter From the Editor - Fashion Week has come and...more

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