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Miller Canfield

Location Or Protectable Trademark? Smaller Airports Grounded in Their Pursuit to Use the Name of the Largest Cities They Serve

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Two of the busiest airports in the United States are battling with their smaller counterparts to retain trademark rights in the name of the major cities the airports serve. While the smaller airports want to capitalize on...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Divided 9th Circuit Says District Court Has Power to Adjudicate TM Applications

In BBK Tobacco & Foods LLP v. Cent. Coast Agric., Inc., 97 F.4th 668 (9th Cir. 2024), the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that federal district courts have power to adjudicate trademark applications pursuant to the Lanham...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

[Webinar] 2022 Trademark Year in Review: Analysis and Trends - January 19th, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST

Join Sterne Kessler attorneys for our inaugural Trademark Year in Review webinar, where speakers will offer summaries and analysis of particularly noteworthy cases from 2022, along with updates on the latest in U.S. trademark...more

Linda Liu & Partners

Build a great wall of trademark protection for your business on China’s e-commerce platforms

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With the increasing protection of IP rights on e-commerce platforms, trademark registrants’ rights are respected and protected. It is difficult to sell counterfeit products on e-commerce platforms. For example, according to...more

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Intellectual Property & Health | News To Know - France & Europe - September 2021

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Patent and trademark issues effecting pharmaceutical laboratories, biotechs, food supplements and dietary products professionals, cosmetics companies and medical devices manufacturers is continually evolving across France and...more

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Sky v SkyKick: Sky gets its kicks as UK Court of Appeal finds broad trade mark specifications are not grounds for invalidity

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The UK Court of Appeal has today given judgment in the long-running trade mark dispute between Sky and SkyKick, in one of the most important and keenly awaited trade mark decisions of the last few years. The Court of Appeal...more

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CJEU: Sweet victory for well-known trademark against registered design

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In its judgment C-693/17 earlier this year, the CJEU confirmed a decision of the GC in design invalidity proceedings, in which the proprietor of a trademark protecting the image of product packaging successfully took action...more

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Not So Swag: No Preclusive Effect for ITC Trademark Infringement, Validity Rulings

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Addressing for the first time whether International Trade Commission (ITC) trademark infringement rulings have a preclusive effect on district court litigation, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the...more

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What’s "Kicking" at the ITC – the All Star Sneaker Battle

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One of the biggest trademark cases in 2018 addressed the issue of secondary meaning in product design—specifically, Converse’s rights in its signature Chuck Taylor® All Star® shoe. In Converse v. ITC, the Federal Circuit...more

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MarkIt to Market - February 2019: Trademark Practice Update: Outrageous! Disgraceful! Appalling!...or is it? SCOTUS to Decide the...

U.S. trademark attorneys received a New Year’s surprise last month when the Supreme Court of the United States agreed to hear Iancu v. Brunetti, the case that should determine the availability of federal trademark...more

Knobbe Martens

Federal Circuit Weighs In on Converse's Midsole Trade Dress

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On October 30, 2018, the Federal Circuit weighed in on Converse’s Chuck Taylor trade dress infringement lawsuit. As reported in If the IP Fits, Wear It: IP Protection For Footwear – a U.S. Perspective, Converse filed over 30...more

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Federal Circuit revives Converse’s Chuck Taylor trademark and infringement claims

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In a recent decision that illustrates the relevance of timing in evaluating the question of secondary meaning, the Court of Appeals of the Federal Circuit breathed new life into Converse’s “Chuck Taylor” sneaker design...more

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Have Christian Louboutin’s exclusive rights to red soles really been “kicked out” as some reports claim?

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The long-awaited Advocate General’s second opinion in Louboutin (C 163/16) was delivered in February. In a nutshell, Christian Louboutin sued Van Haren Schoenen BV for trade mark infringement in the Netherlands of its Benelux...more

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Alert: Supreme Court Wheels Out A Blow To Trunki

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In a decision that will be a disappointment to Community design right holders, the Supreme Court last week rejected an appeal by Magmatic Limited ("Magmatic"), the creators of the successful "Trunki" ride-on suitcases,...more

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The Sofa Workshop v Sofaworks - Intellectual Property Enterprise Court considers requirements for genuine use of a CTM

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The UK's Intellectual Property Enterprise Court recently handed down its judgment in The Sofa Workshop Ltd v Sofaworks Ltd. The case highlights the difficulties that the international nature of Community trade marks (“CTMs”)...more

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