Our “On My Mind” Blog covers legal subjects we believe are useful, interesting and topical. The posts are short and non-technical in style. We mostly choose topics about trademark, copyright and patent matters, but we also cover topics concerning our other practice areas, including Customs & Regulatory Compliance, Commercial & Corporate, Trusts & Estates, and Employment Law, among others.
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Trademark Long-Arm Jurisdiction
USA - April 10 2025 The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (Second Circuit) determined that a Chinese company whose websites offered counterfeit goods to New…
Why Porn Star GIGI DIOR Can’t Register Her Name as a Mark
USA - March 18 2025 You might think of various reasons why a company owned by a porn star might be prevented from registering her pseudonym GIGI DIOR for services that…
Proving a Slogan Fails to Function as a Trademark
USA - January 28 2025 To be registrable, a trademark must identify and distinguish an applicant’s goods from those of others and indicate the source of those goods…
License Required for Affinity Merchandise
USA - January 14 2025 This case concerns whether or not a trademark owner’s rights are infringed when its trademarks are used without authorization on merchandise for…
Mrs. Claus Gets a Half-Baked Decision
USA - December 19 2024 Ho Ho Ho! ‘Tis the season to be jolly. However, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) did not seem to…
Why SPECTACLES Was Held Not Generic for “Smart Glasses”
USA - November 19 2024 The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (Court) reversed a decision by the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB), which had…
Selling Your Own Goods Can Be a “Service” Under U.S. Trademark Law
USA - August 15 2024 At one time, retail store activities were not considered “services” when the store sold only its own goods. Today, however, the name of a retail…
Differentiating Merely Descriptive Marks from Suggestive and Unitary Marks
USA - August 1 2024 Is WHOLESALEHOME merely descriptive of a “cloth for wiping or dusting” sold at wholesale through the internet, or is it registrable with a meaning…
“Trademark Bullying” is a Poor Defense
USA - July 11 2024 Sometimes a company feels that another trademark owner is pressuring it excessively to drop the company’s application to register its trademark or to…
Take Care When a Subsidiary Owns a Trademark Used Only by its Parent Company
USA - May 7 2024 If a mark is in active use only by your operating company, but a registration of the mark is owned by its subsidiary, special steps may be necessary…
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