When looking into protection for your trademarks, there are a lot of options. You can try to do it yourself. I recommend that you hire a trademark attorney, instead. But there is also the unfortunate “Door #3”: using one of the many mass-trademark-filing companies. Trademarkia is one of the biggest names in this field. Or … Read more
When you file a trademark application, you hope it gets through with no delay. However, you may receive an office action from the Trademark Examining Attorney assigned to your application. You would want to then address any issues raised in the office action. You may not succeed, of course. If you don’t, the Trademark Examining … Read more
Last year I wrote about an upcoming Supreme Court case that would have important repercussions for trademark law. The Supreme Court released their decision in that case (now named Matal v. Tam) this morning. The case centered around Simon Tam, bassist and founder of a rock band called The Slants. Tam tried to register his THE … Read more
A few weeks ago, President Trump made a tweet typo (or did he?) that was highly publicized. And when a new work or phrase goes viral, becoming part of our cultural lexicon, you can count on one thing: someone is going to try and claim trademark rights to it. The COVFEFE trademark was included in ten … Read more
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