Business Law
How Long Does It Take To Register A Trademark
How Long Does a Trademark Registration Take? The process to register trademarks tends to be time-consuming and can span over
Eric Gros-Dubois August 30, 2021
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Intellectual Property Law
Can a Logo be Copyrighted and Trademarked?
A logo can be protected by both a copyright and a trademark. To understand the difference between the two forms
Eric Gros-Dubois June 1, 2021
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Can I Bring a Lawsuit Under the Lanham Act if I Don’t Have a Registered Trademark?
A trademark is a word, phrase, symbol, and/or design that identifies and distinguishes the source of the goods of one seller from those of others. It is essentially a brand name. It is not to be confused with a service mark, which is used to identify and distinguish the source of a service rather than goods.
Eric Gros-Dubois November 25, 2020
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Can Fictional Character Obtain Trademark Protection?
Yes, fictional characters can obtain trademark protections. In the realm of Trademark law, trademarks are awarded to source indicators used
Silvino Diaz September 22, 2020
Entertainment Law
Why is Lady Antebellum Suing Lady A?
Country group, Lady A, formerly known as Lady Antebellum, has filed suit against Seattle blues singer Anita White, also known as Lady A. The feud started when Lady Antebellum decided to change their stage name to Lady A, because of the term Antebellum and its ties to slavery periods.
Eric Gros-Dubois July 22, 2020
Business Law
How to Protect your Business Against Trademark Bullying?
Trademark bullying is the process of large worldwide famous companies aggressively asserting their trademark rights over smaller businesses. Even though it is a common practice in the trademark world for trademark owners to “police” the use of their trademarks in the market, sometimes big companies take this “policing” a step further, counting on the inability of small businesses to finance prolonged court litigation over their trademark rights.
Eric Gros-Dubois April 27, 2020
Intellectual Property Law
How to Prevent Cybersquatting
Cybersquatting or domain sharking is the act of registering, trafficking in, or using a domain name that is identical to, or confusingly similar to a registered trademark, with the bad faith intent to profit from the goodwill of someone else’s trademark. By doing this, cyber squatters prevent anybody from buying the domain.
Eric Gros-Dubois April 22, 2020
Intellectual Property Law
8 Things to keep in mind when Inventing (Part 2)
Once the application is submitted, a rigorous evaluation by USPTO officials follows, to certify that what you present as your “claim” in your application is useful, novel and non-obvious. It is also used to check that there is no current patent on it.
Silvino Diaz February 13, 2020
Business Law
8 Things to keep in mind when Inventing (Part 1)
Applying for a patent can be viewed as a contract between inventors and the public (government) in which inventors, in exchange for making their invention public, are granted a limited monopoly over it.
Silvino Diaz February 13, 2020
Intellectual Property Law
Trademark Registration With U.S Customs and Border Protection
With a validly registered trademark with the USPTO, the United States Customs & Border Protection (“CBP”) offers further protections with the ability to record that trademark through them as well.
Eric Gros-Dubois January 17, 2020
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