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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 +
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 would be a company's logo such as the Nike "Check" or McDonald's "Golden Arches."  less -
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A Very Demure and Very Mindful Look at What Celebrities Can Teach Us About Trademarks

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What do a social media content creator and reality television stars have in common? Apart from more followers than I’ll ever have, significant issues regarding their trademarks. Jools Lebron, a content creator, was...more

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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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Reflecting on the Interplay Between Real Estate and Intellectual Property in 2023 - Landmark Trademark Cases and Copyright...

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As 2023 came to an end, it offered a prime opportunity to examine significant legal developments in intellectual property case law and implications for the real estate industry in the year to come. Among other things,...more

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Federal Trademark Decision Impacts Cannabis Industry

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On May 3, 2023, the federal Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (the “TTAB”)—the entity responsible for handling disputes over the issuance of trademarks on a nationwide level—issued a precedential opinion in In re National...more

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2022 Trademark Law Recap: NFTs, Distinct Branding, and the First Amendment

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NON-FUNGIBLE TOKENS AND TRADEMARK INFRINGEMENT: WHERE DOES THE LAW STAND? In Nike v. StockX, LLC, Nike filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against StockX, LLC, an online resale sneaker retailer, in February 2022 in the...more

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Can I get a trademark, copyright, or patent for Cannabis-related products?

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Can I get a trademark, copyright, or patent for Cannabis-related products? Maybe. Individuals and businesses crave certainty. With every emerging area of law; however, comes a certain degree of uncertainty. ...more

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IP Implications of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021

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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

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Trademark Board Harshes the Mellow of CBD Oil Manufacturer

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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

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Federal Circuit Demotes Unconstitutionally Appointed PTAB Judges

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With the Supreme Court in Oil States v. Greene’s Energy holding IPRs constitutional under Article III, and the Federal Circuit in Celgene v. Peter holding the retroactive use of IPRs against pre-AIA patents not to be an...more

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Unprotectable Generic Trademarks + Top-Level Domains = Protectable Trademarks

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Generic trademarks are those which, due to their popularity and/or common usage, have become synonymous with the products or services. Such trademarks include Kleenex, Band-Aid, Jeep, Aspirin, and Cellophane. Such marks,...more

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TTAB Mi-STEAK-enly Evaluated Evidence in Determining No Likelihood of Confusion

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Addressing the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board’s (TTAB’s) treatment of certain evidence in its likelihood of confusion analysis, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit vacated and remanded the TTAB’s dismissal of...more

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TTAB’s Refusal To Register Trademark Reveals Important Lesson For Trademark Attorneys

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The Trademark Trial and Appeals Board’s recent ruling in In re Productos Verde Valle, S.A. de C.V. upholding a trademark examiner’s refusal to register the mark SONIA for “sauces; chili sauce; hot sauce” holds a lesson for...more

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Trademarks Can Originate from Fictional Sources: Fifth Circuit Upholds Trademark Protection for The Krusty Krab

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Stop us if you’ve heard this one—Conan the Barbarian and a Romulan walk into the Krusty Krab. SpongeBob looks at Conan and says, “I know you, but where’s he from?”...more

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Adnan Syed Won a New Trial (Again), But the Serial Podcast Lost its Own Appeal

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If you were a devoted listener of season one of Serial, you probably already know that last month the Maryland Court of Special Appeals decided that Adnan Syed deserves a new trial. What you may not know is that three days...more

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Significant Intellectual Property Trademark Decisions

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2017 was a year filled with significant developments in case law for trademarks. The below rulings highlight some successes and obstacles faced by companies in the protection of their trademarks and their brand as a whole. ...more

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Two Recent Trademark Decisions Provide Ammunition for Trademark Owners Who Receive Improper Specimen Refusals for Service Marks

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In the past few years, many trademark practitioners have noticed an increase in the number of rejections for trademark specimens – the documents that applicants submit to the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)...more

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Food & Beverage Litigation Update | August 2017 #3

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As plant-based beverages appear on more store shelves, the definition of “milk” has become the center of a dispute involving legislatures, regulators, litigators and industry groups. Shook Partners Katie Gates Calderon and...more

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The Earnhardts’ Race To the Courtroom: Who Will Get The Checkered Flag?

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On July 27, 2017, the Federal Circuit decided Earnhardt v. Earnhardt, a trademark collision between two relatives of the famous race car driver, Dale Earnhardt. The case involved an appeal from a TTAB decision between Teresa...more

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Siding with The Slants: Ban on Disparaging Marks Held Unconstitutional

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Asian rock band The Slants is no longer "The Band Who Must Not Be Named," as they titled their most recent album. On June 19, 2017, the United States Supreme Court decided Matal v. Tam, striking a provision of the Lanham Act,...more

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10 Trademark Cases About Yo Mama

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Anna Jarvis led the efforts to establish the first official celebration of Mother’s Day in 1908, during which she honored her own mother, Ann Maria Reeves Jarvis, a Civil War-era social activist. But about a dozen years after...more

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Sue-per Bowl Shuffle III: The Year In NFL-Related Intellectual Property Litigation

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Two years ago, I started worrying about what would happen if someone at a Super Bowl party asked me to explain an NFL-related lawsuit, particularly one of those intellectual property lawsuits that sports fans assume IP...more

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A Family Victory! Victory! Just Not for Little Caesars

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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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A Trademark Year In Wine And Beer 2016: Our Holiday Buyer’s Guide To Disputed Beverages

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Just in time for the holiday season, we present our third annual Trademark Year in Wine and Beer, a wrap-up of alcohol-related trademark and trademark-ish disputes dating back to December 2015, when we published our last...more

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A Tale Of Two Hats: Trademark “Use In Commerce” Expanded In A Potentially Game-Changing Decision

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Our readers no doubt understand that trademark use is the basis for trademark protection in the U.S. But all use is not created equal, and sometimes it’s not so easy to tell whether a trademark is actually used in a manner...more

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More Than Zero: Under the Lanham Act, One Interstate Sale Qualifies as Actual Use of a Trademark in Commerce

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In 2009, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rejected shoe manufacturer Adidas’s application to trademark the phrase “ADIZERO,” due to a likelihood of confusion with an existing mark: “ADD A ZERO,” a clothing trademark held...more

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