Last week, we blogged about Gigi Hadid getting sued for reposing a photo of herself on Instagram and the post received a lot of interest. So we thought we’d also let you know about Fiji Water Company, LLC getting sued for posting a meme on…
Back in July 2017, the United States Patent and Trademark Office proposed a Streamlined Cancellation Proceeding (“SCP”) to expedite cancellation proceedings for challenges to registrations of allegedly unused marks. Following public comments, the PTO shelved the SCP. Instead of the SCP, the Trademark Trial and…
On May 31, 2017, President Trump tweeted a half-formed message with a mystifying final word: “Despite the constant negative press covfefe”. The Twitterverse and other social media platforms went wild with re-tweets, memes and assorted guesses about what “covfefe” meant or what actual word or…
Earlier this week, a company called Xclusive-Lee, Inc. filed a complaint in federal court against the fashion model Gigi Hadid (real name Jelena Noura Hadid) alleging willful copyright infringement when Gigi reposted a photo of herself on her own Instagram account. According to the complaint,…
The U.S. Supreme Court’s blockbuster rulings in Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly and Ashcroft v. Iqbal represented a major shift in federal pleading standards. Resolution of motions to dismiss frequently turns on whether a complaint meets Twombly’s so-called “plausibility” standard. In the context of a…
The French Data Protection Authority, CNIL, has fined Google $50 Million Euros for Google’s alleged failure to comply with the EU’s sweeping General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The enforcement action is significant for a number of reasons: Jurisdictionally, CNIL ignored Google’s attempt to be regulated…
When the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) last week revoked the EU trade mark registration for the mark ‘BIG MAC’, following a challenge brought by an Irish fast-food chain, SUPERMAC’S, it was hailed by the media as a triumph for a small business in its…
In the magical land of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, a new chapter has been added to the trademark fairytale: consumers may have a real interest in preventing the exclusive appropriation of merely descriptive or generic terms by trademark owners. The Trademark Trial and…
Andy Warhol once famously commented that “In the future everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes.” For trademarks, fifteen minutes of fame is not sufficient to assert a trademark dilution claim. The timing of when a mark first became famous and how long that…
The NFL playoffs are underway and teams and their fans are riding high: eight teams still have a chance of making the Super Bowl. Now could be the perfect time to protect the team slogan or motto that fans will love for years to come….
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