Beginning in February 2025, the Trump Administration imposed sweeping tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), including "fentanyl tariffs" on goods from Canada, China, and Mexico...

"Licensee Estoppel" is a judge-made doctrine based on the idea that a licensee should not be able to attack the licensor's rights while benefitting from the license. But the doctrine has not been applied to all IP licenses even when a contract clause prohibits a licensee challenge.

Effective as of June 27, 2023, the Integrity, Notification, and Fairness in Online Retail Marketplaces for Consumers Act ("INFORM Consumers Act") imposes new federal requirements aimed...

A ruling from the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York has opened the door for a website owner to successfully defend a lawsuit claiming that a website does not comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act ...

Affairs of the heart can sometimes seem inconstant. The same can be true of affairs of the law. A case-in-point concerns huggable teddy bears.

About nine years ago, we posted a blog about "How a company name can be a trademark." Now, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB)...

A trademark combining two words may evoke its own unique commercial impression—separate from the meanings of its component words--and be inherently registrable as a unitary term.

Garan Services Corp. filed an intent to use application to register MATCH STUDIO in plain lettering for "clothing, namely tops and bottoms."

Whether an ordinary purchaser would think so in the real world was not relevant to this trademark registrability analysis.

The Zeta Tau Alpha Sorority, which dates back to 1898 and is popularly known as ZTA, was refused registration of ZTA for jewelry (claiming use since at least 1915) and ...

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has published inventorship guidelines (USPTO Guidelines) for patenting inventions made with the assistance...

The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) held in a precedential opinion, reversing its prior decision, that a purchaser of RAPUNZEL dolls did not have a statutory cause of action...

We are pleased to inform you that the 2023 edition of CLL's Copyright Review is now available. You can access it here.

E.B. White writes repeatedly about the public's need for access to a full range of opinion, and he would doubtless I dismayed by the demonization

You should keep in mind that a service mark, such as a restaurant name, may become abandoned when you close a restaurant. Continuing to advertise the restaurant in other restaurants you own...

In a recent Blog post, we suggested steps you might take in an appropriate case to surmount a blocking mark that consists of a verbal element identical or similar to your proposed mark...

The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) appears to have increased the standard of evidence to support a refusal to register a slogan as a trademark, on the ground that it fails to function as a mark.

If your mark is found to describe any of the goods or services identified in your application for registration, and they are in the same class as other goods or services identified in your application...

In Unicolors, Inc. v. H&M Hennes & Mauritz, L.P., Case No. 20–915, 595 U. S. ____ (2022), the U.S. Supreme Court held that the safe harbor provision provided under § 411(b) of the Copyright Act does...