24 Jul, 2024 10 Myths Every Documentary Filmmaker Should Know By Melissa Georges The world of filmmaking abounds with misconceptions, perhaps most significantly in the documentary film realm where filmmakers must...
21 Jan, 2022 Do You Own the Copyright in the Artwork Used to Create Your Trademark? A $31 Million Question! By Kimberly Maynard SweetWater Brewing makes an excellent pale ale. And while I admit that that I’m a little curious (skeptical?) about their almond milk...
09 Jan, 2022 Send In the Clowns: Sponsor Sues Jacksonville Jaguars Due to "Toxic Environment" Around Team's Brand By Brian Murphy Isn’t it rich? Roofclaim.com – a website that, as the name suggests, specializes in roof replacements – entered into a four-year...
26 Oct, 2021 Precedential TTAB Decision Establishes Lower Standard for a Finding of Fraud on the USPTO By Kristina D'Angelo In a recent precedential decision, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board established that “reckless disregard” satisfies the requisite...
05 Aug, 2021 Late to the Party: The USPTO Finally Applies to Register its Own Trademarks By Catherine Farrelly Earlier today, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) announced that it finally has applied to register its own...
19 Mar, 2021 The Halal Guys Files Trademark Infringement Suit Against The Halal Girls By Kristina D'Angelo If you have lived or worked in New York City, it is likely that you have at least once walked past the long line of customers often found...
09 Feb, 2021 Taylor Swift sued by Utah Theme Park for trademark infringement. By Edward H. Rosenthal In England, there is an expression: "Where there's a hit, there's a writ." We don't have an equivalent aphorism, but perhaps Taylor Swift...
09 Feb, 2021 SDNY Magistrate Judge Recommends that Rubik's Cube Design is Not Functional By Kristina D'Angelo Since its creation in the 1980s, the Rubik’s Cube puzzle has become one of the best-selling – and depending on who you ask, one of the...
01 Feb, 2021 Please Dough Not Use My Trademark By Karen Hsieh Bar Dough, a restaurant in Denver, CO, is known for its Italian food, celebrity chef Carrie Baird, and fancy toast. The restaurant...
19 Dec, 2020 Pretty in Pink: Millennial Makeup Brand Gets Trademark Registration for Color Pink By Dorna Mohaghegh Glossier, the cult-favorite minimalist makeup brand, is the proud new owner of a federal trademark registration for the color pink as...
16 Dec, 2020 Update: Fifth Circuit Upholds Denial Of BRIZZY Preliminary Injunction And District Court Refuses To Dismiss By Kimberly Maynard After losing its bid for an order enjoining Molson Coors from using VIZZY for hard seltzer, Future Proof—owner of the trademark BRIZZY...
05 Nov, 2020 Anita White Strikes Back With Second Trademark Suit By Matthew Samet In July 2020, after country music group Lady Antebellum changed its moniker to “Lady A”, Lady Antebellum filed a trademark lawsuit in the...
03 Aug, 2020 I See Me, I Sue You: Jordan Jumps at Card Cameos By Mma Afoaku Before the NBA season resumed down in Florida, basketball fans received a big dose of nostalgia with the 10 part airing of the...
29 Jul, 2020 Little Consolation for Hyperkin as Atari Litigation Games Continue By Matthew Samet In a 46-page opinion issued this week, U.S. District Court Judge Christina A. Snyder of the Central District of California denied a...
11 Jul, 2020 That's Not My Employment Law Group! A Trademark Battle Between Two Law Firms. By Kimberly Maynard When times get tough, law firms get tougher and… sue each other? Recently, there has been a spate of trademark infringement suits filed...
26 Jun, 2020 The G.O.A.T. Trademark Registration Stands, and the Goats With It By Kimberly Maynard Undeterred by his failure to convince the TTAB and the Federal Circuit that Al Johnson’s Swedish Restaurant and Butik’s federal trade...