Jul 29, 2024 The Importance of Registering Your Business's Assumed Name By Lyle Gravatt Travis Albea When you're launching or running a business, your brand identity is one of your most valuable assets. Often, this identity is...
Mar 12, 2024 NFTs: Copyright Office and USPTO Weigh In By Laura Lamansky Back in 2022, the Senate requested the U.S. Copyright Office and the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) conduct a joint...
Apr 28, 2023 China Still Tops Priority Watch List for Bad Faith TMs & Counterfeiting By Laura Lamansky The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) released a new Special 301 report that keeps China on the Priority Watch List...
Mar 27, 2023 Jack Daniel's Dog Toy Case Heard at SCOTUS By Laura Lamansky The Jack Daniel's Dog Toy case - also known as Jack Daniel’s Properties Incorporated v. VIP Products LLC - made its way to the Supreme...
Mar 17, 2023 Fast Fashion Face Off: SHEIN v. Temu By Laura Lamansky The ultra-fast fashion industry is currently watching as litigation between SHEIN and Temu plays out in court. Both companies are...
Feb 17, 2023 The Trademark Modernization Act in 2023: What's the latest? By Laura Lamansky Here's a sneak peek to one topic I'll be discussing in an upcoming webinar with my colleagues entitled Hot Topics in Trademark and...
Feb 03, 2023 When Is Using Another's Trademark Not Infringing? By Laura Lamansky Trademarks are the source identifiers that allow consumers to differentiate one good or service from another. For instance, a swoosh...
Jan 18, 2023 MetaBirkin Case Heading To Trial By Laura Lamansky Hermès, a major luxury goods player, sued artist Mason Rothschild in January 2022 claiming that his NFT (non-fungible token) infringes on...
Jan 12, 2023 SCOTUS Correctly Denies Cert. for NBA Trademark Infringement Case By Laura Lamansky In an unsurprising decision, the Supreme Court of the United States chose not to hear the case appealing the Seventh Circuit Court of...
Jan 14, 2021 Celebrated graffiti artist Futura sues The North Face for its FUTURELIGHT apparel line alleging copyright and trademark infringement By Jeffrey Brown Celebrated graffiti artist Futura (Leonard McGurr) has sued The North Face in federal court in California objecting to The North Face’s...
Dec 08, 2020 Legendary MC5 Guitarist Wayne Kramer Doesn't Like the Smell of Proctor & Gamble's "Guitar Solo" Body Wash By Jeffrey Brown Legendary MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer has filed a lawsuit against Proctor & Gamble alleging that P&G’s depiction of a spotlighted rocker...
Nov 05, 2020 He May be Undefeated in the Ring, but Floyd Mayweather Got Knocked Out at the Trademark Office. By Jeffrey Brown In an appeal of the Trademark Office’s refusal to register Mayweather Promotions’ trademark “PAST PRESENT FUTURE” for t-shirts, the...