Traditional limitations on trademarking a personal name give way to free speech interests when it comes to prominent public officials.
The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board violated the First…
In the US an intent-to-use (“ITU”) trademark application may be filed by “a person who has a bona fide intention, under circumstances showing the good faith of such person, to use a trademark in…
A district court rightly enjoined a Wyoming trial lawyer training program from purporting to be the “true board” of a competing program from which it had recently split, the U.S. Court of Appeals for…
First Circuit affirmed a decision to dismiss a trademark suit brought by Motus LLC against CarData Consultants Inc. for a lack of personal jurisdiction, and because alleged trademark infringement was…
So, a million years in the future, an alien lands on the moon and sees this footprint.
The alien quickly accesses the GWW (Galaxy Wide Web) and discovers that it was left by one astronaut of…
Although the federal court stayed its action to allow a state court to determine the scope of certain licenses, the stay could not be reviewed on appeal because it did not effectively end the federal…
Palace of Justice in Budapest
Long before appellants wishing to bring appeal cases to the CJEU were obliged to file a separate request for admission of the appeal, access to the Kúria (the…
Substantial evidence supported the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board’s finding that another company, and not the trademark holder, actually used the mark in commerce.
The Trademark Trial and Appeal…
On 21st December 2021, the General Court (GC), in case T-369/20, dealt with “likelihood of association” setting out a double test which seems to be at odds with the previous case law, notably the…
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) held in its decision C-541/18 of September 12, 2019 that the distinctive character of a sign applied for as a trademark –a prerequisite of eligibility for…
