Here’s your weekly roundup of stories in the world of trademarks.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has warned that Digital Mortgage Comparison-Shopping Platforms may violate the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act's (RESPA) anti-kickback rules.

Two recent bills were signed into law following the 2020 Regular Session of the Kentucky Assembly which impact creditors. Creditors should be aware of these changes as they may limit ability

It is two weeks until the July 1, 2024, effective date for the U.S. Department of Labor's Final Rule (the "Final Rule") raising the minimum salary level requirement for exempt white-collar employees to $43,888 annually.

Employers are now dealing with the very real possibility of a coronavirus pandemic in the United States.

For both established companies and new companies, it is often essential to allow key employees to participate in the company's future growth and profitability through equity ownership.

Retirement plan sponsors and other fiduciaries are required by ERISA to discharge their duties with the "care, skill, prudence, and diligence" under the circumstances as would a prudent man

In recent years, we have seen more and more ERISA class action claims against retirement plan sponsors and committees for breach of fiduciary duty.

Over the past several years, Kentucky, similar to other states, has received many applications for industrial-scale solar generation and energy storage facilities in rural areas across...

In Rivera v. Wells Fargo Bank, the borrower argued that the Bank could not prove that it had possession of the E-Note.

Do Kentucky patients have a cause of action against a hospital for the negligent credentialing of a non-employee physician who is given staff privileges by the hospital? In March of 2016, the Court of Appeals answered that question in the affirmative, recognizing a new, stand-alone tort and avenue for recovery against Kentucky hospitals.

On November 30, 2021, a federal judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky issued an order granting a preliminary injunction curbing implementation and enforcement of ...

Similar to pizza ingredients, artificial impairment of creditors results in artificial confirmation of the Chapter 11 plan.

A single petitioning creditor initiated the case of In re Zenga based on the putative debtors' responses to interrogatories which identified 10 creditors.

Sam Adams (not the founding father, the beer company) filed an application to register BOSTON 2024 recently for, well Beer.

Goodwill is a concept near and dear to trademark law. After all, trademarks symbolize the goodwill of the business with which they are associated.

The NY Times ran an article yesterday about a new treatment for HIV, which was published in Nature online yesterday.

It appears that the clash between free speech and trademark protection is headed to the Super Bowl, but it won't be the Washington Redskins on the field.

The United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office now requires UK-specific proof of trademark use and reputation. Owners of UK trademarks will recall that one result of Brexit was the automatic creation of UK trademark...

On May 5, 2015 the IRS announced in a news release that victims of the severe storms that occurred beginning April 2, 2015 in certain parts of Kentucky may be able to delay filing certain tax returns until July 31, 2015.