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Earlier this year, it was considered a rumor that EA Sports was considering a name change for its bestseller video game franchise. Since 1993 when the first FIFA International Soccer game was released, they have always used the FIFA trademark for the game…
Day after day the world becomes smaller as more businesses expand overseas with their products or services. However, this comes with a risk of the unauthorized use of your trademark by others, else known as infringement. This risk increases with the…
We all know the importance of trademark registration as a crucial step for protecting your brand identity. But what are some of the steps that you need to take in order to successfully register your trademark, especially when it comes to logos? First of…
It’s been more than a week that the 2020 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXXII Olympiad and branded as Tokyo 2020 begun. But we are in 2021; is this a mistake? Actually not, and the reason behind this is a number of intellectual property…
Tomorrow, we are releasing our inaugural Trademark Prosecution Intelligence Report . Similar to our other Insight Reports, for this, we evaluated more than 2.6 million trademark applications filed or registered from January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2020. As…
Tomorrow, we are releasing our Third Annual Patent Prosecution Intelligence Report , where we have analyzed the patent prosecution data for five consecutive years (2016-2020), covering various statistics related to the USPTO, Technology Centers, Art Units,…
The TTAB has affirmed a refusal to register the trade dress configuration mark (see below) of the popular Timberland boot, a wardrobe staple in hip-hop culture ( see The World is Yours by Nas), stating the configuration failed to attain acquired…
In April 2021, big-box retailer Walmart Apollo, LLC (“Walmart”) filed a trademark opposition against Yeezy LLC’s (“Yeezy”) U.S. Trademark Application Serial No. 88/746444 for its sun rays design mark, shown below…
On November 30, 2020, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law New York Senate Bill S5959D , an amendment to New York’s right of publicity law to provide the 40 year post-mortem right of estates of deceased celebrities and performers to protect…
On October 27, 2020, the District Court in the Western District of Texas issued its Final Judgment in L’Oreal USA Creative, Inc. v. Drunk Elephant, LLC, 1:18-cv-00982 (W.D.Tex.), which approved the Joint Stipulation of Dismissal in view of the…
Trademark generates approximately 10 percent of the USPTO annual revenue or about $350M. Compared to patents, this is much smaller, but our data shows that more than 15,000 attorneys work on trademark applications every year. USPTO also employs more than…
The U.S. Court of Appeals in the Second Circuit found in favor of Costco in the latest chapter of an over seven-year legal battle between Tiffany and Co. (“Tiffany’s”) and Costco Wholesale Corporation (“Costco”). A three judge…
