Cathy’s practice is focused on trademark matters, including trademark clearance and availability opinions, preparing and prosecuting trademark applications, and policing and enforcing trademark rights, including domestic and international trademark opposition and cancellation proceedings. Cathy counsels clients on strategies for protecting and enforcing their trademarks on an international basis, and has provided counsel in a wide variety of industries, including banking, medical products, retail, hotels, health care services, and consumer products. Cathy also has significant experience in due diligence investigation in mergers & acquisitions.
As we wrote in Parts I and II in this series, the Trademark Modernization Act of 2020 (“TMA”) was signed into law on December 27, 2020, containing several significant amendments to the Lanham Act. This post will cover two of the legislative changes: (1) the…
Veronica Morales, a wedding/event planner providing services under the trademark BLUE IVY (depicted above), has unsuccessfully challenged a pending application for the mark BLUE IVY CARTER, filed by BGK Trademark Holdings, LLC (Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter). The decision contains some helpful lessons on how to pursue…
The Supreme Court handed down its decision today, affirming that BOOKING.COM is a protectable and registrable trademark for “hotel reservation services,” and rejecting the premise that a generic.com term is ineligible for trademark protection. The Court held that the USPTO’s attempted advancement of a per…
On April 8, 2020, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a decision on an appeal from the refusal of registration of a color trademark by the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. In this case, the applicant, Forney Industries, Inc., a maker of…
When I was a kid, we anxiously awaited Christmas Eve, with the exception of traditional lutefisk dinner. If you too have ingested lutefisk, you may agree that it is unpalatable. My Dad’s now family-famous quip was “just put more melted butter on it.” That quip…
The decision and damages awarded to Marcus Gray, Emanuel Lambert, and Chike Ojukwu in the Katy Perry “Dark Horse” copyright infringement case last week have the attention of the music industry. We provided some commentary here on the potential impact of the decision on what…
Recently, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit vacated and remanded to the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board a decision on an ex parte appeal regarding a likelihood of confusion between the applicant’s mark GUILD MORTGAGE COMPANY & Design for mortgage banking services and a…
A trademark will be deemed abandoned under Section 1127 of the Lanham Act when the mark’s use has been discontinued “with intent not to resume such use.” Proof of non-use for three consecutive years will give rise to a presumption of abandonment, which can be…
In January 2015, Pitney Bowes filed an intent-to-use trademark application for the logo shown here for use with mailing services, including postal delivery, parcel delivery, and delivery of mail to post offices for posting (Serial No. 86502157). Pitney Bowes later filed its specimen of use,…
We recently wrote about the decision in the federal district court for the Eastern District of Virginia, which overturned in part the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board’s decision that the mark “Booking.com” is not registrable because the mark is generic. The route of the appeal…
Jeffrey CadwellJeff advises clients on the availability, registrability, and stre...
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