2024 is upon us and it's going to be another busy year for intellectual property law. In this episode of IP Talk with Wolf Greenfield, you'll hear Wolf Greenfield attorneys from a variety of practice areas...

In a rare case involving a geographic certification mark (sometimes called a certification mark of regional origin), the Board affirmed a Section 2(d) refusal of the mark...

The United States Patent and Trademark Office recently released new guidance to its examiners on how claims are to be examined under 35 U.S.C. § 101, to determine whether claims recite

The USPTO has issued a Notice of Proposed Rlemaking (detatils here) to implement the provisions of the Trademark Modernization Act of 2020. The Office will hold two roundtables to field questions and...

In its decision (here) finding likelihood of confusion between the mark IBKÜL (stylized) and the mark KÜHL, both for clothing items, the Board considered only one of four of Alfwear's registered marks.

The Federal Circuit recently affirmed the TTAB's ruling in In re Cordua Restaurants LP, finding the term CHURRASCOS (stylized) to be generic for restaurant services.

The Board affirmed a refusal to register QLED on the Supplemental Register, finding it to be generic for smartphones, computers, and related goods.

Tomorrow I will be presenting a webinar, along with Ted Davis, for the New York Intellectual Property Law Association,

In April 2022, INTA filed an amicus brief (pdf here) supporting Jack Daniel's petition for en banc rehearing of the BAD SPANIELS decision in VIP Products LLC v. Jack Daniel's Properties, Inc.

One strategy that a patent owner can pursue in an IPR trial is to file a motion to amend seeking to replace one or more of the challenged claims with substitute claims that neither enlarge the scope of the claims nor introduce new subject matter.

Bryan Conley is a shareholder and experienced litigator at Wolf Greenfield who focuses his practice on intellectual property matters at the agency, trial, and appellate levels.

In a dispute between two competing cosmetics companies, a federal court in Florida recently held that an allegedly fraudulent Amazon takedown notice

Due to the current COVID-19 pandemic, effectively all hearings and oral arguments must be cancelled, rescheduled or conducted remotely.

In the Matter of CERTAIN ROBOTIC VACUUM CLEANING DEVICES AND COMPONENTS THEREOFSUCH AS SPARE PARTS, Inv. No. 337-TA-1057, Commission Opinion (February 1, 2019)

In a three-page Order, the Board ruled that a party domiciled in Canada, despite the appearance of an authorized Canadian trademark attorney/agent on its behalf,...

Professors Barton Beebe and Jeanne C. Fromer of NYU School of Law present the results of their empirical study regarding fraudulent specimens of use in applications originating in China.

Here is a Trademark Alert Published by Wolf Greenfield regarding the Trademark Modernization Act of 2020 ("TMA") and the upcoming trademark fee changes.

Chief Judge Gerard F. Rogers has announced the addition of three interlocutory attorneys to the TTAB roster

Chief Judge Roger has announced that two Interlocutory Attorneys at the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board have been promoted to the position of Administrative Trademark Judge.

The Board denied TMC's motion to re-open this 1997 concurrent use proceeding involving the mark ON THE RUN...