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New Utah NHL Team Takes Shot-Pass With Nine Intent-to-Use Trademark Applications

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Though the NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs are in full swing, a lot of off-ice activity is happening as a result of the sale of the Arizona Coyotes to Utah Jazz owners Ryan and Ashley Smith’s Smith Entertainment Group. Most hockey...more

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ITU Applicants Beware: Federal Courts Have Jurisdiction Over Pending Trademark Applications

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The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed in part a district court’s ruling in a trademark dispute, upholding its decision to invalidate trademark applications. The Ninth Circuit held that district courts have...more

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Trademark Insight 02/2024 – European Union & Germany // Country Focus - UK

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Dear Readers, This issue of Trademark Insight once again summarizes a number of interesting decisions from the past few months, including the following key cases: As always, we also report on current case law on the...more

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What Is ‘GPT’ And Who Owns It?

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Within the last year ‘ChatGPT’ has become a household name. Some may even know that a company called OpenAI created the chatbot service based on artificial intelligence. What you may not know is that OpenAI applied to...more

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Trademark Insight 06/2023 – European Union & Germany // Country Focus - Spain

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In this issue, we have once again compiled interesting decisions from recent months. Of particular interest are: the CJEU decision on international territorial jurisdiction for AdWords ads and meta tags; the German Federal...more

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China Starts Registering Trademarks Filed for NFTs and Virtual Goods in the Metaverse

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The Trademark Office of the China National Intellectual Property Administration (“Chinese Trademark Office” or “the Office”) has recently approved a slew of marks filed for non-fungible tokens (“NFTs”) and other goods and...more

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Trademark Insight 03/2023 – European Union & Germany

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Dear readers, Last month again saw some interesting decisions, which we have compiled for you in the current issue of TRADEMARK INSIGHT. Below you will find our summaries of decisions of German courts, the EUIPO Boards of...more

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From Soup to Nuts: A Round-Up of Legal Guidance for Food & Beverage Companies

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The Los Angeles area is home to iconic food innovators, family-run restaurants of every ethnic stripe, and competition-winning restaurateurs. A successful restaurant or food and beverage company is also a business enterprise...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Trademark Board Harshes the Mellow of CBD Oil Manufacturer

The relationship between the cannabis industry and intellectual property laws in the United States is unique and complicated, in many ways mirroring the nation’s collective views on the cannabis plant. This is unfortunate, in...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

A “Brand" New World: Five Ways Foreign Companies Can Avoid Trademark Problems in the U.S.

Entering a new geographic market presents challenges for any company looking to expand its footprint abroad. For a foreign company making a move into the U.S., these challenges can be somewhat overwhelming. ...more

Hutchison PLLC

Markedly Misunderstood: 4 Common Misconceptions About Trademarks

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Everyone is familiar with Trademarks. We are literally surrounded by them. Trademarks are the words, logos, packaging and other devices that we use to differentiate goods and services from each other and are how we can...more

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How The NFL, Pop Culture, And Successful Advertising Helped Lead Campbell’s To A CHUNKY Victory

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The Campbell Soup Company (“Campbell’s”) can now tell its competitors, “No CHUNKY soup for you!” Earlier this month, Campbell’s earned the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s (“USPTO”) approval to trademark the word...more

McCarter & English, LLP

Bracing For Brexit: IP Considerations To Deal With No Deal

The United Kingdom is likely to exit the European Union on either March 29, 2019, or on December 31, 2020, depending on whether there is “a deal” (there’s always a chance the parties extend the negotiations or the UK revokes...more

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Procter & Gamble Seeks To Register Text Message Lingo Such As LOL And WTF

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Procter & Gamble, the international consumer packaged goods conglomerate, recently filed a slew of trademark applications with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, seeking to register WTF, LOL, FML, and NBD for use...more

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Long-awaited Trademark Law of Myanmar to be announced this year

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Trade mark owners worldwide should watch out for the long-awaited first modern Trademark Law in Myanmar – very likely to come into force anytime in the coming months. ...more

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Intellectual Property Bulletin - Spring 2017

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It’s Dangerous to Go Alone! Take This. Intellectual Property Tips for the Esports Industry - With the annual Game Developers Conference spectacular in our rearview mirror, and the NBA’s partnership with Take-Two to launch...more

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A Family Victory! Victory! Just Not for Little Caesars

The United States Patent and Trademark Office, Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (the “Board”) modified its treatment of the “family of trademarks” doctrine in the recent case In re LC Trademarks, Inc., Serial No. 85890412...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Your Trademark on Steroids - Making Your Trademark Registration Stronger

In our previous articles we discussed ways in which trademarks are maintained and protected through filings that are mandatory and which filings would result in abandonment or cancellation if not timely submitted. ...more

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Newly published European Trademark Directive and Regulation Gives Owners of EU Trademark Registrations for Class Headings Last...

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Among several other changes in the European Union Trademark (EUTM) system (formerly referred to as the Community Trademark (CTM)), the European Union Intellectual Property Office (formerly known as OHIM) will provide a period...more

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