What began as a trademark infringement case, developed into a battle of possible “genericide” when two popular moving and storage companies went head-to-head in...
Warner Brothers Trademark Infringement Case – Keeps Clean Slate Warner Brothers Trademark Infringement Case – In a case stemming from the 2012 box office...
Intellectual Property Law – No Dull Moments Intellectual Property Law – With Labor Day quickly approaching, and Back-to-Work and Back-to-School mentality haunting many of...
Protecting ‘Pig Sooie’ & Distinctive Sounds Through Trademark Earlier this summer, the University of Arkansas, home of the Razorbacks, secured trademark protection for its “Calling...
Contributory Cybersquatting Contributory Cybersquatting – Does the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA) provide a basis of liability for a domain name registration service if...
International Trademark Protection – The Madrid Protocol The Madrid Protocol – There are multiple ways to protect your brand overseas, but the most commonly...
Trademark Abandonment Trademark Abandonment – Under section 45 of the Lanham Act a mark will be abandoned under certain circumstances: (1) When its use...
Trade Dress – Whiskey Bottle Showdown David Versus Goliath in Whiskey Bottle Showdown Trade Dress Showdown – One of the iconic, uniquely American products...
The Trademark Registration Process Part 3 Trademark Registration Process Part 3 – In Trademark Registration Part 2 of the trademark registration process we looked...
Can Government Entity Trademark Insignia? Government Entity Trademark Their Insignia? – Today we look at an interesting case, In Re City of Houston, before the United...
The Trademark Registration Process Trademark Registration Process – How does one go about registering a trademark? What are some of the requirements in order...
Swarovski Aktiengesellschaft v. Building No. 19 – Nominative Fair Use Nominative Fair Use – This case highlighted the fact that trademark law is constantly...