Although beer and other alcoholic beverages are generally considered to be closely related for likelihood of confusion purposes, there are strategies for simultaneously registering similar trademarks for those products.

Brand owners who seek federal trademark protection in the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) have become targets for impersonators, imposters, scammers and others who use deceptive...

On June 4, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. v. Amarin Pharma, Inc., clarifying and narrowing the circumstances under which a generic drug manufacturer...

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.

Restaurant names may be deemed confusingly similar even though one is in English and the other is in a foreign language with the same meaning.

In the Old Testament, King Solomon proposed to resolve a dispute between two women who both claimed to be the mother of an infant by declaring...

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...

A jury has spoken in a case brought in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York by Hermès against the digital artist Mason Rothschild, who had created and sold "MetaBirkins"...

Companies that innovate and pursue patent protection in the U.S. should take note of a recent Supreme Court decision that requires that a patent application be filed for an invention within one year of an offer for sale ...

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...

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) is increasing most patent fees on January 19, 2025.

A federal court in Minnesota denied a sculpture park's motion to dismiss a Visual Artists Rights Act claim, finding factual disputes over whether a monumental 53-foot sculpture was a work-for-hire and whether it possessed recognized stature when destroyed. The case will proceed to trial to determine if VARA protections apply to the artwork's removal and destruction.

In Springfield Township, 15 miles from Philadelphia, some police organizations and their members began to display the flag, which the court defined as Thin Blue Line American Flag (the "Flag") in various ways.

A logo can be covered by both copyright and trademark rights.

Note that merely using a trademark to advertise goods is not sufficient.

Restaurants like to adopt names that tell customers about the nature of the restaurant in some interesting way. But it can be difficult to register a descriptive name as a service mark.

If you file a U.S. application to register a service mark based on its use in commerce, take care to select an acceptable specimen of use to support that application.

If you saw a book advertised by the slogan JUST SAY IT, would another famous advertising slogan come to mind?