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CASE OF THE WEEK Kyocera Senco Industrial Tools Inc. v. International Trade Commission, Appeal No. 2020-1046, -2050 (Fed. Cir. Jan. 21, 2022) The Federal Circuit’s only...
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On November 16, 2021, Miramax, LLC (“Miramax”) brought claims of breach of contract, copyright infringement, trademark infringement, and unfair... Read More »
Try typing COVID in your search engines and you will likely get billions of results. Meanwhile a bit more than 2 years before, this and the coronavirus word were ... Read More »
A part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act for 2021 passed on 27 December 2020, was the Trademark Modernization Act which comes in effect in few weeks. This... Read More »
Trademark registration is an important and sometimes even difficult step towards your brand building but nothing ends there. As a matter of fact, the more... Read More »
You have probably heard a lot about NFTs lately, but what are they indeed? Non-fungible token many might answer, but this still doesn’t make you understand ... Read More »
GALPERTI, INC. v. GALPERTI S.R.L.
Before: Moore, Prost, Taranto. Appeal from the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.
Summary: Evidence of use of a term... Read More »
During October 2020, Playboy filed a lawsuit against Fashion Nova over a Halloween costume which looked copied from the iconic Playboy costume. Not only the... Read More »
Yesterday, Mark Zuckerberg announced the Facebook company changing its name into Meta as part of his plan to focus on developing a virtual world. While the... Read More »
One of the reasons that the majority of countries in the world apply the “first to file” system, including the European Union and China, must be that ... Read More »
Earlier this year, it was considered a rumor that EA Sports was considering a name change for its bestseller video game franchise. Since 1993 when the first... Read More »
Day after day the world becomes smaller as more businesses expand overseas with their products or services. However, this comes with a risk of the... Read More »
We all know the importance of trademark registration as a crucial step for protecting your brand identity. But what are some of the steps that you need to... Read More »
PIANO FACTORY GROUP, INC. v. SCHIEDMAYER CELESTA GMBH
Before Prost, Bryson, and Stoll. Appeal from the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.
Summary: The... Read More »
Trademarks provide protection for both businesses and consumers, making them an important part of running a successful company. This importance makes its... Read More »
It’s been more than a week that the 2020 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXXII Olympiad and branded as Tokyo 2020 begun. But we are in... Read More »
Under US law, practically everything can be registered as a trademark, as the protection only applies in a particular context. The primary restriction is that ... Read More »
Patent litigation remained strong in the second quarter of 2021. District court litigation, in particular, increased 11% in Q2 compared to Q1. Inter-Partes Review... Read More »
Tomorrow, we are releasing our inaugural Trademark Prosecution Intelligence Report. Similar to our other Insight Reports, for this, we evaluated more than 2.6 million ... Read More »
Tomorrow, we are releasing our Third Annual Patent Prosecution Intelligence Report, where we have analyzed the patent prosecution data for five consecutive years... Read More »
The TTAB has affirmed a refusal to register the trade dress configuration mark (see below) of the popular Timberland boot, a wardrobe staple in hip-hop culture (see... Read More »
