John K. Muntean, an individual from Duluth Georgia, filed an intent to use application to register JUST BELIEVE IT as a service mark for business consultation services in the fields of fundraising

Ho Ho Ho! ‘Tis the season to be jolly. However, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) did not seem to share this message fully.

In succession planning, it is easy to forget that intangible intellectual property assets, such as trademarks, copyrights, patents, and publicity rights, require specific attention.

The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) rarely reverses an Examining Attorney's refusal to register a mark. Yet, in two decisions issued less than two weeks apart, the TTAB reversed refusals...

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...

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.

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

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?

You normally should take affirmative steps to satisfy the requirements for filing an intent to use trademark application.

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.

Effective December 18, 2021, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) regulations implemented the Trademark Modernization Act of 2020 (TMA).

Sometimes a company feels that another trademark owner is pressuring it excessively to drop the company's application to register its trademark or to change to a different trademark.

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?

In Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, Inc., 590 U.S. ____ (2020), the U.S. Supreme Court held (5-4) that any works (including non-binding annotations to a State code) authored by or for the State's legislature in the course of ...

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

Yayoi Kusama's new exhibit, I Spend Each Day Embracing Flowers, opened this month at New York's David Zwirner gallery. The all-time highest selling female artist, Kusama is known for her massive...

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.