Trademarks protect ownership of words, phrases, designs, or a combination of them used in defining or distinguishing goods. Services use a service mark, which affords the same type of protection. People can register their trademark with the U.S. Patent and Trademark...
Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas is You” was first released in 1994 on her Merry Christmas album, and it has since become a Billboard Chart-topping classic. Now Mississippi-based songwriter Andy Stone, who performs as Vince Vance & the Valiants, filed a...
Visual artists Kit-Yin Snyder and Richard Haas created several works of art installed in the Manhattan Detention complex. Long known as The Tombs, the two buildings are scheduled for demolition, but Haas and Snyder recently won a temporary restraining order on May 13...
On May 2, a federal jury in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia ruled in favor of Columbia University in a patent-infringement lawsuit against NortonLifeLock Inc. The university sued the company, previously known as Symantec, in 2013 for...
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) processes most properly executed applications with little fanfare. However, its Patient Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) conducts trials using a three-judge panel to address inter partes reviews (the most common),...
Trademarks are legal protection that allow the owner to warn others against unauthorized use or theft of ideas. What do the trademark symbols represent? There are three different symbols. The trademark symbols (TM and SM) are both referred to as trademarks, but there...
Intellectual property matters are rarely straightforward. So, it should be no surprise that the United States Patent and Trade Office (USPTO) has 45 different classifications for trademark registration. Thirty-four of them involve goods, and 11 involve services....
The U.S. Supreme Court handed down a ruling on February 24, 2022, on a case argued on November 8, 2021. Unicolors, Inc. v. Hennes & Mauritz, LP involved a group of 31 design patents, nine of which were confined designs reserved for exclusive use by specific...
A multi-class trademark application is used when a trademark falls into more than one category. This type of application lets the applicant file electronic paperwork once and pay only one filing fee, rather than multiple times, to get a mark for their goods and...
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has a set procedure for challenging a trademark application or seeking the cancellation of an already granted trademark. These are the avenues for a business or individual who believes another party is attempting to infringe on...
