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A decision of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York highlights an emerging risk in the era of ChatGPT and Claude -- Using a public generative AI tool to analyze legal issues...

There are many active U.S. trademark registrations of marks containing the word LOVE. Perhaps the most famous is registered as a mark in at least 10 classes:

You might think that BLUEBERRY MUFFIN is a generic term anyone can use for blueberry muffins, but what about for blueberry muffin flavored beer?

If you advertise a service, take preliminary steps to render the service, or both, and apply to register the service mark in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office based on a claim that you have commenced use of the mark …

Influencer marketing may bring your brand viral attention, but the strategy also may expose you to legal risk. Now is the time to implement best practices for influencer marketing programs.

A foreign or domestic complainant in an opposition, cancellation or other proceeding against a U.S. trademark application or registration must have an interest that affects U.S.

The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) has issued a precedential opinion that an Amazon Affiliate Store is a "referral service," not a "retail store service" for purposes of a service mark application.

A U.S. trademark application may be found to be void from the beginning if it is filed in the wrong name.

Companies have a long history of taking a humous approach to advertising for April Fools' Day. The following selection of announcements of imaginary products and services came from the companies themselves.

Although trademarks, copyrights, patents, and trade secrets all concern intangible property rights and overlap to some extent, they differ from each other significantly.

Can different parties register TABLEAU as a service mark for restaurant, bar, and cocktail lounge services on the one hand, and as a trademark for wine on the other hand?

Only humans can be authors under the Copyright Act, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed in a unanimous opinion on March 18, 2025.

The Trademark Modernization Act of 2020 affords an excusable nonuse defense against an attempt to cancel a U.S. trademark registration that is more than three years old for a mark never used in U.S. commerce.

Taylor Swift, Matthew McConaughey, and Usain Bolt are pioneering a novel approach to combat unauthorized AI-generated content by leveraging trademark rights in unprecedented ways. These celebrities are registering their images, voices, and catchphrases as trademarks to supplement traditional intellectual property protections. Can trademark law provide the legal framework needed to fight against AI-generated deepfakes and unauthorized digital impersonations?

Damselfly Global LLC (Applicant) filed a U.S. intent to use application to register the mark shown below...

What is the Supplemental Register in the U.S.? Why apply to register a mark on the Supplemental Register? Can a registration on the Supplemental Register block the registration of a confusingly similar mark?

The term GPT stands for “generative pretrained transformer,” which software developers understand to refer to a machine learning algorithm that is pre-trained to produce human-like text in response to human prompts.

If a mark is in active use only by your operating company, but a registration of the mark is owned by its subsidiary, special steps may be necessary to register that mark...