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A Trademark is a legally registered distinctive mark or sign which identifies goods, products or services that originate or are associated with a particular person or enterprise . A typical example of a trademark... more +

Trademark Insights: What the First Precedential TTAB Expungement Decision Means for You

Womble Bond Dickinson on 7/15/2024

As a trademark applicant, encountering a prior registration that obstructs your path to registration is never a pleasant experience (nor for your attorneys who have to inform you about it). The frustration only intensifies...more

Expungement and Reexamination and Shorter Trademark Office Action Response Periods, Oh My!

Fenwick & West LLP on 2/4/2022

Yes, you read that correctly. Trademark practice at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as we know it is about to change (well, at least in part). The USPTO recently published its final rule implementing certain...more

Implementation of the Trademark Modernization Act (TMA): What Trademark Owners Need to Know

Shutts & Bowen LLP on 12/29/2021

Rebuttable Presumption of Irreparable Harm - The Trademark Modernization Act (TMA) was signed into law December 27, 2020. Importantly, the burden shifting provision for trademark owners in litigation seeking preliminary or...more

A December to Remember: The Trademark Modernization Act Implemented on December 18, 2021

Foley & Lardner LLP on 12/21/2021

The Trademark Modernization Act of 2020 (“TMA”) went into effect on December 18, 2021. Applicants and registrants now have new tools at their disposal to clear the federal register of unused trademarks and the USPTO can move...more

New Procedures for Challenging Trademark Registrations at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Harris Beach PLLC on 12/16/2021

On December 18, two new procedures will be available for challenging U.S. trademark registrations. On that date, new regulations from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will take effect, as part of the USPTO’s...more

Trademark Modernization Act: Final Rules

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 12/14/2021

The USPTO recently issued its final rules to implement the Trademark Modernization Act, whose goal is to clear away unused registered marks and make the trademark registration process more efficient. Below, we highlight...more

PTO Publishes Regulations to Implement Trademark Modernization Act

McDermott Will & Emery on 12/2/2021

The US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) recently published its final rules implementing provisions of the Trademark Modernization Act of 2020 (TMA). Most changes are effective as of December 18, 2021, but certain changes...more

Trademark Modernization Act of 2020: Part 3

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 7/27/2021

The new ex parte expungement and reexamination proceedings, introduced by the Trademark Modernization Act, are intended to be efficient ways of removing improper trademark registrations from the register. But will...more

Trademark Modernization Act of 2020: Part 1

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 6/25/2021

The Nuts and Bolts of Expungement and Reexamination - You may remember our blog post here, discussing the Trademark Modernization Act of 2020, which became law at the end of last year. To implement the Trademark...more

The Trademark Modernization Act Of 2020 Is Enacted

Fox Rothschild LLP on 1/26/2021

Trademark Modernization Act of 2020 Signed Into Law- On December 27, 2020, Congress signed the Trademark Modernization Act of 2020 (the “Act”), which had rare bipartisan support, into law. The Act makes substantive...more

IP Implications of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021

McDermott Will & Emery on 1/14/2021

On December 27, 2020, Congress signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, into law. The omnibus act includes new legislation affecting patent, copyright and trademark law. A brief summary of key provisions is provided...more

IP Gets “Modernized” In Stimulus Bill

Lewitt Hackman on 1/8/2021

Embedded within the 5,600-page Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 – more commonly known as the $2.3 trillion Coronavirus Relief Stimulus Bill enacted on December 27, 2020 – are significant changes to federal trademark and...more

Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 Contains Significant Changes for IP Owners

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC on 1/8/2021

On December 27, 2020, President Trump signed into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (CAA), which includes the Trademark Modernization Act of 2020 (TMA) amending various sections of the Lanham Act, and the...more

A “Stimulus” to “Modernize” Intellectual Property

Buchalter on 1/4/2021

On December 27, 2020, President Trump signed the “Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021” into law. Most referred to this as the Coronavirus Relief Bill and thought that it only contained a stimulus package. However, within...more

The USPTO Put Its Foot Down on Registering Master Rancher

ArentFox Schiff on 12/9/2020

Is a MASTER RANCHER also the RANCHMASTER? That is the question pondered by the TTAB in this ex parte appeal. The hardware store, True Value Company, despite owning numerous registrations for “MASTER-” formative marks, was...more

Trademark Modernization Act: Congress to Combat Fraudulent Trademark Applications

Fenwick & West LLP on 8/7/2020

A bipartisan, bicameral group of legislators in the U.S. Congress recently published a draft Trademark Modernization Act to reform the trademark application process and the remedies for trademark infringement. The draft TM...more

A Family Victory! Victory! Just Not for Little Caesars

Akerman LLP - Marks, Works & Secrets on 1/16/2017

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

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