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Intellectual property is critical to the gaming industry. From independently produced mobile applications to big AAA titles, the market is flooded with more and more options for gamers every day.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit overturned a summary judgment in favor of accused trade-secret infringer Cadbury Stani (Stani) after determining that the license in suit was ambiguous and inapposite for determination on summary judgment.

Coming up with unique beer names can be a frightening prospect. With so many brewers cranking out so many outstanding beers, it can sometimes seem like all of the best names are already taken.

Not often does the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board consider whether a drug is a drug. But that's what happened when the Board reviewed the mark THCTea—finding it misdescriptive.

For those of you following, breath bated, developments regarding ICANN’s New gTLD Program, the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation is holding a full committee hearing on the domain name expansion on December 8 at 10:00 AM ET in 253 Russell Senate Office Building, and also via webcast. Witnesses have not yet been announced.

The $520,000 awarded against Redbubble to teen fashion line Brandy Melville by a California jury last month proved to be short-lived.

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has finalized its fee schedule for 2025. The updated fee schedule is effective on January 19, 2025. It includes increases to most standard.

The United States Patent & Trademark Office on August 8, 2019, issued an alert to U.S. lawyers warning that unauthorized changes have been made to a number of active

In a surprising decision, the US Supreme Court has ruled 8-1 that adding ".com" to an otherwise generic word can make the combination eligible for trademark protection.

The U.S. Department of Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control, has issued much-needed guidance on the effect of Russian sanctions on efforts to obtain or maintain, patent, trademark, copyright...

On February 7, 2020, and effective February 15, 2020, the USPTO issued a new examination guideline titled, Mandatory Electronic Filing and Specimen Requirements (Guide 1-20)...

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) launched a new pilot program to reduce examination delays for certain patent applications starting October 27.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued special accommodations for patent and trademark applicants affected by a severe earthquake in Japan on July 28, 2026. These measures include restarting response time periods...

A final ruling has been issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) regarding applications which contain nucleotide and/or amino acid sequences. (OLD)

As reported in our previous posts, the USPTO, in response to the COVID-19 outbreak, provided relief to trademark applicants and owners by allowing extensions of certain deadlines for several types of filings.

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) introduced the Automated Search Pilot Program, designed to give applicants early access to AI-generated prior art searches before substantive examination.

The USPTO today issued regulations [pdf here] implementing the provisions of the Trademark Modernization Act of 2020 (TMA).