Our latest update summarizes selected cases in the food industry that demonstrate issues to consider when selecting a trademark or when operating under a trademark license.

In Dr. Seuss Enterprises, LP v. ComicMix LLC, Case No. 19-55348 (9th Cir. December 18, 2020), the Ninth Circuit held that Oh, the Places You'll Boldly Go! ("Boldly")—ComicMix's Star Trek-themed sendup

A trademark is a brand name, logo or package design, or a combination of them, used by a manufacturer or merchant to identify its goods or services and to distinguish them from others.

Erik Brunetti, an artist and founder of a clothing line, applied to register the mark FUCT for various goods and services.

A patent gives the patentee (patent owner) the right to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale or selling an invention within the U.S. or importing it into the U.S.

A copyright seeks to promote literary and artistic creativity by protecting, for a limited time, what the U.S. Constitution broadly calls the "writings" of "authors." Copyrightable works include:

On Sept. 11, 2024, Senior Judge Thomas Thrash Jr. of the Northern District of Georgia granted plaintiffs' motion for a preliminary injunction in Isaac Hayes Enterprises v. Trump, No. 24-cv-3639 (N.D. Ga. Sept. 11, 2024).

For thousands of years, Jews have utilized a form of alternative dispute resolution called Batei Din (translated as "houses of judgment"), which apply Jewish law (halacha) in adjudicating legal disputes.

Many intellectual property lawyers believe that the entire subject of secured transactions does not concern them. Whether that was ever true, such a belief could be disastrous today. There has been a growing acknowledgement over the last few years among lenders and investment bankers that a company's intellectual property is often its most valuable asset. This is so not just for high tech companies with their portfolios of patents or computer software developers with software copyrights a

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

The concept of fair use in copyright law is well known to intellectual property practitioners. An analogous concept exists in trademark law, where the use of another's mark is deemed "fair".