One of the primary reasons that a company or person hires an attorney is to alleviate some type of “pain”. They may use words like “challenges”, “problems”, or “obstacles”, but all of the words amount to the same thing: they are experiencing discomfort; they are...
Beyoncé, also referred to as “Queen Bey”, has cultivated and inspired arguably the largest and most influential fan group in the world, known as the “Beyhive”. Beyoncé’s devoted legion of fans have become well-known for stirring a “buzz” on social media platforms like Twitter. The...
The petition of the day is: AMCI Holdings, Inc. v. CBF Industria de Gusa S/A 17-481 Disclosure: Goldstein & Russell, P.C., whose attorneys contribute to this blog in various capacities, is among the counsel to the petitioners in this case. This listing occurs without regard to the likelihood...
Recent research has shown that content marketing generates three times as many leads than traditional marketing while costing 62% less. Of course, to reap those rewards, your content marketing must be firing on all cylinders — especially when it comes to connecting with prospects on...
You know you’ve been successful when the name of your product is so prominent that the public uses it to refer to that whole class of product. When that happens, there’s good news and bad news. The good part is that your product must be...
Do you go to sleep at night with an uneasy feeling that you should be making a lot more money by now and achieving a level of success that still seems to elude you? Maybe your revenues and profits are falling faster than you want to...
Cheerios® may have a trademark registration for the slogan The One and Only®, but the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board shot down its attempt to register the color yellow for its box, finding that it was not the one and only cereal with a yellow...
In a case of first impression, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (the “TTAB”) decided that a licensee, even an exclusive licensee who has been appointed by the licensor as its representative for protecting intellectual property rights, cannot assert her licensor’s purported priority rights to...
On August 28, I posted about a case involving the question whether “google” is a generic term for providing a search engine. Now the good folks at Velcro Companies are fighting the same battle, but they’re trying to attack the problem without litigation about whether the...
The transcript in Ayestas v. Davis is available at this link; the transcript in Wilson v. Sellers is available at this link. The post Argument transcripts appeared first on SCOTUSblog....