A trademark is supposed to identify the source of the goods for which it is used and to distinguish them from the goods of others.

Companies have a long history of taking a humorous approach to advertising for April Fools' Day. The following selection of announcements of imaginary products...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (Second Circuit) determined that a Chinese company whose websites offered counterfeit goods to New York residents was subject to personal jurisdiction in New York...

Recent TTAB decisions illustrate how composite marks combining words and design elements can avoid likelihood of confusion with competing marks when the textual and visual components work together...

On January 1, 2024, new federal rules promulgated pursuant to the 2021 Corporate Transparency Act ("CTA") became effective, governing the disclosure of beneficial ownership information ("BOI") for a Reporting Company.

Is there a likelihood of confusion between a trademark for beer and the same mark for restaurant services? In some cases, yes; and in other cases, no. It all depends on the evidence.

Two decisions by the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) illustrate the difficulty of predicting whether a likelihood of confusion will be found when comparing virtually identical marks for different goods or services.

In addition to registering a hotel or restaurant's name as a service mark, it may be possible to protect its exterior design from unauthorized use or copying by others for the same or similar services...

Tangle, Inc. owns registered copyrights in seven "kinetic and manipulable sculptures" (also known as "The Original Fidget Toy Since 1981"), each made of "17 or 18 identical, connected, 90-degree curved tubular segments ...

We previously wrote that boundaries exist in trademark proceedings where the marks are similar but the services differ (“Services Have Boundaries in Trademark Proceedings.”)

The Copyright Act lists "choreographic works" as one of the eight types of creative works that are protectable under federal copyright law (17 U.S.C. Section 102(a)(4)).

The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (Court) reversed a decision by the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB)...

The 2019 Edition of the World Trademark Review 1000 included comments about us from some of our clients:

On May 21, 2024, the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (in a proceeding known as an en banc rehearing) issued a decision in LKQ Corp. v. GM Global Technology Operations LLC, No. 2021-2348 (Fed. Cir. 2024).

For copyright infringement cases involving musical compositions, courts and juries are often tasked with determining whether two songs are "substantially similar,"...