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"Crucial Tips for Using IP Watching and Enforcement to Protect Your Business" is featured in the 2018 Intellectual Property Supplement of The Legal Intelligencer, as authored by W. Drew Kastner...

"Ski fashion" is one the season's hottest trends, even for brands that previously had no ties to winter sports. I discuss the top luxury ski fashion brands, with a focus on Moncler, and then provide a discussion.

SGR's Marsha Ajhar, New York counsel in the firm's intellectual property practice, recently began her second term as president of the International Intellectual Property Society (IIPS).

The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) sustained the examining attorney’s refusal to register the mark .MUSIC on the ground that it was merely descriptive. In re theDot Communications Network LLC, Serial Nos. 77622942, 77622944, 77622945, 77622947 and 77622948 (T.T.A.B. Nov. 22, 2011) (precedential).

If you have received a Notice of Opposition against your application, it means that another person believes that your trademark should not be registered and has initiated opposition proceedings...

Welcome to the Last Month at the Federal Circuit – a look at recent Federal Circuit decisions impacting the intellectual property community.

Today, there are more than 2.2 billion social media users spanning sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest.

Stephen Lott and Lauren Gregory co-authored a July 2022 article in The Intellectual Property Strategist, "Proper Notice of Trademark Rights: Using Trademark Symbols for Three-Dimensional Packaging and Product Designs."

Beginning August 1, the USPTO is streamlining the process for following new assignments, obtaining information on pending assignments, questions on assignments, liens on patents...

There are few toys as recognizable as the LEGO brick. The tiny plastic brick is the LEGO Group's "most important product,

On October 30, 2014, the PTO issued the October 2014 edition of the Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure.

In her article, "Using Failure to Function Doctrine to Protect Free Speech and Competition in Trademark Law," Professor Lisa P. Ramsey of the University of San Diego School...

National Public Radio had a story yesterday on politicians’ use (or misuse) of music at campaign events.

Vacating a district court’s judgment that Starbucks had failed to sustain its burden in proving trademark dilution, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that a post-decision, congressional amendment to the Federal Trademark Dilution Act (FTDA) required a remand for application of the amended statute to Starbucks’ injunctive relief claim.

The United States District Court for the Western District of Texas, applying Texas law, has held that an insured is not entitled to coverage under a claims-made-and-reported...

The UK has voted to leave the European Union. This will not affect the UK's position as one of the most important IP jurisdictions in Europe.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court’s grant of a preliminary injunction prohibiting the defendant from using the mark "CROSSBOW" to sell exercise equipment.

The Court in B&B Hardware, Inc. v. Hargis Industries, Inc. ruled that TTAB decisions are entitled to preclusive effect so long as the "ordinary elements" of issue preclusion are met.