Developing the right strategy for protecting intellectual property is vital to any starting company.

In my role as a trademark thought leader (LOL!), I recommend two recent articles that caught my interest and I think will catch yours.

In connection with his latest presentation at the recent INTA Annual Meeting, Ted Davis offered his "Annual Review of U.S. Federal Case Law and TTAB Developments."

Thank you, Ted Davis, for permitting me to post a link (here) to your article "Trademark Case Decisions: The Past Year in the Courts & at the TTAB,"...

"The Trademark Office Comes to California," set for April 2 in San Francisco, and April 4 in Los Angeles, is one of the flagship events hosted by the California Lawyers Association Intellectual

Nokia saw no jokia when Somasundaram Ramkumar applied to register the mark JIOKIA for electronic mail and other online services.

On June 27, 2023, the Integrity, Notification, and Fairness in Online Retail Marketplaces for Consumers Act – the INFORM Act – went into effect.

The USPTO has issued Examination Guide 4-19 (August 2019), entitled "Requirement of U.S. Licensed Attorney for Foreign Trademark Applicants and Registrants."

The USPTO today issued regulations [pdf here] implementing the provisions of the Trademark Modernization Act of 2020 (TMA).

The USPTO is proposing to change the Trademark Rules of Practice to require that foreign applicants be represented by a U.S. licensed attorney.

The folks at the data-mining firm, Towergate Software, have provided me with the following data regarding the law firms or lawyers most frequently appearing as counsel...

Widely recognized as the best non-INTA event at the INTA annual meeting, MEET THE BLOGGERS returns for its 16th edition on Monday night, May 2nd, from 8-10 PM at The Eleanor (website here)...

With the United Kingdom's departure from the European Union, European Community Design Registrations will no longer be enforceable in the UK.

Yesterday, the Chief Judge of the Western District of Texas announced that all patent infringement cases filed in Waco, Texas after July 25, 2022 will now be randomly assigned...

A divided Board panel affirmed a refusal to register the mark CASALANA for "knit pile fabric made with wool for use as a textile in the manufacture of outerwear, gloves, apparel, and accessories,"...

Monday, December 27, 2021, is opening day for the new USPTO ex parte expungement and reexamination procedures.

Recently, the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts held a webinar in which several judges discussed their experiences...

Kenneth B. Germain and Louise H Sitler provide some pre-Yuletide reading material with their new article, "The Constitution Commandeth: Thou Shalt Not Protect the Same Subject Matter...

Northeastern Law School and the Boston Intellectual Property Patent Law Society (BPLA)

The September-October 2022 issue of The Trademark Reporter [pdf here], as described by Willard Knox, Editor-in-Chief, "offers our readers an article mapping out how to navigate the doctrine of foreign equivalents...