The Trademark Registration Audit program of the USPTO randomly selects trademark registrations to be audited in order to determine whether the registered trademarks are actually in use with their related goods and services.
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A Philadelphia bar is seeking to trademark ‘PLAY GLORIA’ and use it in connection with the sale of apparel and merchandise emblazoned with the mark, claiming first use and creation of the connection of use with the mark in support of the St. Louis Blues hockey team that used Laura Branigan’s 1982 song “Gloria” throughout their Stanley Cup championship series.
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A federal court passed down a blockbuster ruling, holding that e-commerce giant Amazon can be held liable for third party sellers’ products, effectively allowing Amazon to be held liable for defective products sold by third party vendors via the Amazon marketplace.
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A video of someone licking a tub of Blue Bell ice cream and returning it to a store shelf soon went viral. Beware the legal consequences of intentionally tampering with a consumer product, knowing that the consumer product will be offered for sale to the public or as a gift to another.
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Tech companies and leaders in audio monitoring systems have created aggression detector surveillance technology systems as an alternative to typical video monitoring, to monitor auditory interactions between people and perceive when a conversation is escalating to potential violence, triggering an alert.
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The decision over whether Kim Kardashian will be able to successfully register “KIMONO” is left ultimately up to the U.S. Trademark Office alone, and the federal agency is banned from making subjective decisions on the registrability of the mark based on public sentiment.
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The Supreme Court ruled that the long-standing precedent and prohibition of seemingly scandalous trademarks violated the First Amendment.
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Prenda Law was found by the court to have acted as copyright trolls, knowingly creating or exacerbating the situation by uploading the very torrents of pornographic content to websites such as Pirate Bay that were at the center of their lawsuits.
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Intellectual property attorneys should focus on whether Return Mail v. USPS decision will be used to prohibit the government from raising challenges as a “person” in other avenues of intellectual property law.
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A recent innovation has used the Internet of Things to study bees in an attempt to figure out why there has been such worldwide colony collapse.
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One of Amazon’s latest patent applications covers a method for Amazon’s AI-assistant, “Alexa,” to start recording before the trigger or use of the device’s wake word. And reignites debate about consumer privacy and AI.
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The estate of famous composer Harold Arlen, composer of the classic “Over the Rainbow”, has sued multiple technology giants over alleged unauthorized recordings of Arlen’s compositions.
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In gathering consumer data and “learning” from consumers, without consumer ability to completely shut them off, virtual assistant privacy concerns are valid. Retailers like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft argue that the virtual assistant data collection practices, which often allow for no deletion, or even require any sort of disclosure in some cases, are integral to improving the consumer’s experience.
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EU Copyright Directive Article 17 is an amendment that shifts the burden of copyright infringement policing from copyright owners to the streaming platforms on which the works are uploaded.
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Investigators are utilizing social media as evidence of hiding of assets, and for tracking down hackers. Intellectual property attorneys also often use social media to identify, track down, and or prove IP infringement.
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Amazon developed a host of anti-counterfeiting tools, to identify counterfeit items currently being sold on amazon.com and remove them, and to prevent counterfeit goods from being listed for sale.
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Photographer claims her work of cats on glass for Fresh Step taken outside of scope of copyright agreement.
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Recently the European Union Intellectual Property Office ruled in favor of the nation of Iceland against a food retailer, effectively cancelling the ICELAND trademark registration granted to Iceland Foods in 2014.
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Article 13, the most highly debated portion of the new European Union comprehensive intellectual property directive, may have big impact on copyright law across the globe.
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The U.S. Trademark Office recently made headlines when it decided to deny Warner Brothers Entertainment (“Warner Brothers”) the trademark registration for “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
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