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How would you pronounce #law? Is it “hashtag law,” as the PTO examiner suggested would be the most common understanding, or “pound law,” as alleged by the unsuccessful registrant of #law as a service mark. And to what does it refer: a hashtag for a continue reading...
What additional value does a copyright registration confer on a run-of-the-mill neighborhood social media post? Not a lot, it appears. Earlier this year, the First Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a lawsuit brought by one neighbor against another. From 2002-2017, neighbors in the Davis Square continue reading...
Author Denise Shull lost her challenge to the Showtime television show Billions, which she claims copied the character bearing her name in Shull’s book Market Mind Games: A Radical Psychology of Investing, Trading and Risk. Shull alleges that she was never paid for the time continue reading...
Trademark law aficianados have followed the progress of Romag Fasteners v. Fossil from District Court to the Federal Circuit to the Supreme Court and back again. We previously blogged about the Supreme Court decision here. In the latest installment, the Connecticut District Court refused to continue reading...
Rupp v. Courier-Journal, Inc. involves a dispute between the makers of DERBY-PIE®—a trademarked chocolate-nut pie—and a local newspaper that published two articles about other businesses creating other chocolate-nut desserts. Departing somewhat from its own ruling decades earlier in a separate case involving “Derby pie,” the continue reading...
In recent years, commentators have discussed patent venue ad nasuem in the run-up to and following the Supreme Court’s 2017 decision in TC Heartland. In a nutshell: after TC Heartland restricted the circumstances under which venue can be found proper for patent cases, plaintiffs brought continue reading...
Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the Second Circuit, and ruled that infringer’s profits can be awarded even without a showing of willful infringement. A jury had ruled that Fossil acted in “callous disregard” of Romag’s trademark rights when Fossil’s Chinese manufacturers used counterfeit Romag continue reading...
The Supreme Court oral argument in the trademark case Romag v. Fossil provided an entertaining view of what some may consider a dry topic: legislative intent for damages awards in a trademark infringement case. Not to be lulled into a monotone and perfunctory argument, the continue reading...
The dispute over the bitcoin named Alibabacoin is apparently over. Last year, Chinese tech giant Alibaba sued Belarus- and Dubai-based ABBC Block Chain IT Solutions LLC in New York federal court for trademark infringement based on ABBC’s Alibabacoin bitcoin. Several sources have reported that the continue reading...
The USPTO issued an unusual advisory bulletin last week, warning the public of a rash of “unauthorized changes” to active trademark applications and registrations. The bulletin, which can be found here, reveals that the PTO believes these may be part of a potential “scheme to continue reading...
Jeffrey CadwellJeff advises clients on the availability, registrability, and stre...
Michael KeyesJ. Michael Keyes is an intellectual property attorney with exten...
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