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The issues of trademark infringement and dilution go “wild”

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
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  • May 20 2013

Those of us in a certain age bracket will remember Mutual of Omaha's "Wild Kingdom" television program that first began in 1963. The Emmy

The new generic top-level domains and the new Trademark Clearinghouse: deciding whether to register your brands

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • Global
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  • May 16 2013

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ("ICANN") is the organization that oversees domain names worldwide. It recently began

A primer on policing your trademark

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
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  • April 10 2013

Trademark owners have a duty to police their mark. This applies to all types of marks brand names, slogans, color, product shapes, or even a smell

Are Dr. Dre’s claims of likelihood of confusion and dilution enough to “beat” his opponents?

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
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  • March 13 2013

Rapper Dr. Dre and the company he co-founded, Beats Electronics, LLC, are on the offensive at the US Trademark Trial and Appeal Board challenging a

David can beat Goliath in the trademark world just ask Mixed Chicks!

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
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  • December 7 2012

On November 2, 2012, a federal jury in the Central District of California awarded Mixed Chicks LLC, a beauty supply company for mixed-race women, www.mixedchicks.net, $839,535 in actual damages and $7,275,000 in punitive damages for willfully infringing the MIXED CHICKS trademark and trade dress with its MIXED SILK line of products

How do you or don’t you state a case for a declaratory judgment in a trademark dispute?

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
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  • December 5 2012

Ever since the US Supreme Court in MedImmune, Inc. v. Genetech, Inc., 549 U.S. 118, 127 S, Ct, 764, 166 L. Ed.604 (2007) threw out the “reasonable apprehension” test as defining the grounds for bringing a declaratory judgment action, courts have considered a wide variety of factual circumstances in deciding which meet the Court’s redefinition of “controversy.”

Some companies must do more to protect brand identity

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
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  • December 3 2012

Every business has a name

Google and Rosetta Stone settle AdWords trademark infringement suit

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
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  • October 31 2012

Six months after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit reversed the district court’s dismissal of Rosetta Stone’s trademark infringement lawsuit against Google, the parties issued a joint statement today announcing that they have settled their legal dispute

Pattern designs on US Navy uniforms and fabric are non-functional protected trademarks

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
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  • October 9 2012

A recent TTAB case addresses the issue of functionality and protection of design

S. 3523: Louboutin, Lululemon, and fashion design: finally getting some respect?

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
  • -
  • September 20 2012

A few weeks ago, the Second Circuit’s ruling in the Louboutin decision made clear that color as a trademark can be protected in the fashion industry

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