Identical trademarks can coexist, as the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board once again emphasized when it overturned the refusal of a COMPASSION IN ACTION mark. The Board’s decision is both a lesson in strategically narrowing an application’s services and a cautionary tale of how to continue reading...
On January 29, the U.S. Copyright Office released Part 2 of its planned 3-part report on the legal and policy issues related to copyright and artificial intelligence (AI). Part 1 of the report, which was published in July 2024, addressed the topic of digital replicas. continue reading...
John Wick is a highly successful film franchise starring Keanu Reeves as a hitman who reluctantly emerges from retirement to avenge the killing of his pet beagle (among other offenses committed by a group of not-very-nice Russian gangsters). The first movie in the series came continue reading...
The emergence of generative artificial intelligence (AI) products in the past couple of years has significantly increased the capacity for individuals, businesses, and organisations to utilise AI to produce a wide range of content at great speed and low cost for personal, professional, and business continue reading...
The United States Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in Dewberry Group, Inc. v. Dewberry Engineers Inc., vacating a nearly $43 million profits award and remanding the case for further consideration. The Court concluded that the Lanham Act’s provision allowing plaintiffs to “recover [a] defendant’s continue reading...
A long legal battle over the right to use the “UGG” mark may result in the end of a company’s right to the word “UGG” in connection with sheepskin shoes and accessories outside of Oceania. The brand “UGG Since 1974” has agreed to only use continue reading...
Are you ready to begin adding AI Agents to your human teams? You will soon be getting requests to do so. While business teams will be wowed by what AI Agents and their subagents can do, the artificial intelligence regulatory environment is increasingly uncertain, and continue reading...
School merch is big business. Students want sweats, mugs and the like to show they belong at the school. Alums want merch to show they went to the school. Other purchasers want merch as an aspirational statement, or to support the idea of the institution. continue reading...
This post was originally published on the Lanham Act Surveys for Lawyers newsletter. Seven years ago today, Jack Daniel’s was no doubt riding high. The U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona gave Jack a big shot in the arm with a trademark infringement and continue reading...
Our friendly neighbors in the Great White North are implementing important changes in 2025 with respect to language requirements for trademarks and a new pilot project initiated by the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (“CIPO”) to issue cancellation proceedings against trademark registrations based upon non-use. Language continue reading...
Jeffrey CadwellJeff advises clients on the availability, registrability, and stre...
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