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…
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…
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….
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…
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…
This post was written by Indian Law expert, Cyril Abrol, of the law firm Remfry & Sagar and republished with permission from Remfry & Sagar. For more information about Remfry & Sagar and their attorneys, please visit: https://www.remfry.com/. On January 03, 2025, the government released the much awaited…
The U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) published its final rule (“Final Rule”) on January 8, 2025, that will prohibit or restrict transfer of certain data of U.S. persons to countries of concern, including to China. The Final Rule largely tracks with DOJ’s notice of…
On October 16, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a revision to its negative option rule. The rule, formally entitled the “Rule Concerning Recurring Subscriptions and Other Negative Option Programs,” is a robust governmental intervention into the marketing and sales of products or services…
This post was written by Korean Law experts, Sue Su-Yeon CHUN and Clare Ryeojin PARK of the law firm Kim & Chang and republished with permission from Kim & Chang. For more information about Kim & Chang and their attorneys, please visit: https://www.kimchang.com/en/main.kc. For more…
How many years must pass before a grisly murder can support a marketing effort? Apparently, something less than the 132 years since Lizzie Borden’s father and stepmother were axe murdered in Fall River, Massachusetts. (Yes, the passive voice is intentional—a jury acquitted prime suspect Lizzie,…
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