On December 4, 2008 partner, Dan Zendel, was interviewed by CNN International and asked by Anchor and Correspondent Maggie Lake to comment on the BRATZ case, Carter Bryant v. Mattel, Inc.

The USPTO is restructuring its electronic trademark filing process by replacing the current TEAS Plus and TEAS Standard options with a single streamlined electronic application.

Since 1986, it has been possible to request accelerated examination of a Japanese patent application.

On May 13, 2025, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will expedite Issue Dates for patents. This will reduce the average time from three weeks to about two, so patent holders can bring their investments to market...

DNS BE, the manager of the .be (Belgium) domain name zone has announced the following changes to its Terms and Conditions that favor trademark owners..

Much has been written on the subject of bad patents. While many people state that the number of bad patents issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (U.S. P.T.O.) is increasing, a bad patent may in effect be in the "eye of the beholder".

In a highly anticipated decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit overturned the infamous Medinol trademark procurement fraud standard previously adopted by the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB").

The National Arbitration Forum’s (NAF) revised Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) Supplemental Rules became effective on January 1 2006. While most of the revisions do not have a material effect on the filing of complaints under the UDRP (eg, increased filing fees and the limitation for each party to a single additional submission), the new definitions section has a significant impact on a fairly common type of domain dispute.

Trademark owners may no longer be able to ignore the extensive unauthorized commercial use of their intellectual property in virtual worlds such as Second Life.

In its decision in American Needle Inc. v. National Football League on May 24, 2010, the United States Supreme Court unanimously held that an association formed by the member teams of the National Football League (NFL) to market their intellectual property rights collectively should be treated, for anti-trust law purposes, as a "combination" rather than a single entity.

Awards of damages in cases where patent infringement is found may be dependent on whether the patent owner has marked goods sold under the patent with the number of the relevant patent or patents.

The European Court of Justice (ECJ), Europe’s highest court, has upheld the decisions of the Grand Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonization of the Internal Market (OHIM) and the European Union General Court cancelling the Community Trademark for the design of LEGO building blocks.

The TTAB, applying the Milwaukee test, rejected an application for a dark green colour mark for medical gloves on the ground that it was generic...

Microsoft recently filed complaints in three federal courts against registrants of allegedly infringing domain names, demonstrating an aggressive stance toward the increasingly prevalent and lucrative practices of online trademark infringement and cybersquatting.

The creation of username registration programs by Facebook and Twitter presents potential concerns for rights holders who wish to prevent third parties from adopting their trademarks as user names.

The duty to disclose information that is material to patentability is found in 37 C.F.R. 1.56. This duty requires that each individual associated with the filing and prosecution of a patent application has a duty of candor and good faith in dealing with the U.S. Patent and Trade Mark Office (PTO) which includes the duty to disclose to the PTO all information known to that individual to be material to patentability.

In the recent opinion in CreAgri, Inc. v. USANA Health Sciences, Inc., Case No. 05-15305 (9th Cir. Jan. 16, 2007) (Hawkins, J.), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit addressed what itif called a question of first impression in the circuit, holding that "only lawful use in commerce can give rise to trademark priority", and agreeing with U.S. Patent and Trademark Office policy rejecting priority from unlawful use.

The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is the latest and most far-reaching attempt to harmonize intellectual property enforcement and strengthen anti-counterfeiting efforts across the globe. As of May 2012, the European Union and 22 of its 27 member states have joined Australia, Canada, Japan, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea and the United States as signatories of ACTA.

The Union of Serbia and Montenegro (a creation in 2003 from the remnants of former Yugoslavia) effectively came to an end on June 3, 2006 after Montenegro declared its independence following a referendum. In addition, Kosovo, a southern province of Serbia, has been under United Nations administration since 1999.

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) has been enjoined from implementing its controversial rules relating to the number of continuation applications that could be filed based on a single initial application and requiring that applicants carry out their own searches and analysis of the art if they desired more than twenty five claims or five independent claims.