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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

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

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

The future of the Saab trademarks: trademarks in bankruptcy

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
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  • December 20 2011

With the announcement today that the Swedish automaker Saab has filed for bankruptcy, we thought it timely to take a look at what happens to trademarks in the context of a bankruptcy proceeding

Avoid a “heart attack”: promptly register your trademarks

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
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  • July 12 2012

On July 6, 2012, in Lebewohl v. Heart Attack Grill, LLC , a New York Judge made it possible, in the words of the Wall Street Journal, for people to continue to “Order Up a Heart Attack” in, at least, Las Vegas and Manhattan

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

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

Do you want your name to be part of a new .xxx domain? What trademark owners need to know

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • Global, USA
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  • May 9 2011

There is a great deal of controversy and debate among brand owners about how to deal with the issuance of new top-level domains (TLD) by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN

Perfecting security interests in intellectual property not as obvious as you might think

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
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  • June 27 2012

The economy has not been kind to many businesses in the last several years

Beware of trademark fee scams in Europe and Asia

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • Asia-Pacific, European Union
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  • May 25 2011

Anyone who has filed a trademark application in Europe or Asia, whether directly or through legal counsel, knows that following the filing, they will receive a number of unsolicited letters, e-mails, or other communications from entities offering to provide, for a fee, “services” related to that application ranging from offers to “publish” or “register” the trademark, to listing the trademark in “business directories.”