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...
When Terms are Merely Descriptive Part 2 Merely Descriptive Part 2 – Today we continue our discussion of certain interesting topics within the larger...
When are Terms Merely Descriptive? Part I We have previously discussed trademark issues with descriptive terms. To recap, terms that are merely descriptive receive the...
Preliminary Injunctions for Trademark Infringement Preliminary Injunctions – When you accuse someone of infringing your valuable trademark, what actually happens? In American Rena International Corp...
Secondary Meaning – Zatarain’s v. Oak Grove Smokehouse Secondary Meaning – Terms that are merely descriptive are not usually protectable under the Lanham Act...
Trademark Trial Appeal Board & Infringement Lawsuits Trademark Trial Appeal Board (TTAB) – In B&B Hardware v. Hargis Industries the United States Court of Appeals for...
Three Intellectual Property Protections – Navigating Different IP Protections Three Intellectual Property Protections – You now have a business and with it, a whole...
Genericide: How Success May Cancel A Trademark Genericide Discussion – What do the terms “Thermos,” “Aspirin,” and “Yo-Yo” have in common? They are all...
Voluntary Cessation and Loss of Standing Voluntary Cessation Case – Competitors should not be able to use trademark lawsuits as offensive weapons. This was...
