The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (the “USPTO”) recently announced significant changes to its trademark fees, set to take effect on January 18, 2025. These fees will help cover the cost of the USPTO’s ongoing efforts to manage and maintain trademark records....
To acquire rights in a trademark, a person or entity must use a trademark for goods and services in commerce. Such rights, if built on use alone, also known as common law rights, are relatively easy to establish and afford a trademark owner exclusive rights to use the...
In September, news broke that Tempo Music Investments LLC filed a lawsuit against Miley Cyrus for copyright infringement. Tempo Music, who acquired ownership rights in the 2012 song “When I Was Your Man” by Bruno Mars, claims that Cyrus’ 2023 hit song “Flowers” copied...
MOTHER UNTITLED Building and maintaining a career as a parent presents unique challenges. And while women have ushered in monumental changes which have created more equity in the workplace, the work is by no means done. Even today, women face outsized challenges...
On Wednesday, the Federal Trade Commission “FTC” announced a final “Click-to-Cancel” Rule, formally known as the “Rule Concerning Recurring Subscriptions and Other Negative Option Programs” (the “Rule”), requiring companies to make it easier to cancel subscriptions....
Children’s online safety took center stage last summer when the Senate passed the Children and Teen’s Online Safety Act (“COPPA 2.0”) and the Kids Online Safety Act (“KOSA”). Should they pass the House and be signed into law, the measures proposed in the bills could...
MAIDEN CENTURY QTIP Providing our client, Maiden Century, trademark registrations at the U.S. Trademark Office is just one of the elements in the frictionless relationship we enjoy as outside counsel in protecting its proprietary intellectual property. The company...
WELCOME BABY Becoming a parent brings its own new challenges. Financial instability makes these new challenges far more difficult. Our client Welcome Baby helps tackle some of these hardships by providing already struggling new parents with a package containing the...
If you’re confused about trademark identification classifications for virtual goods and services, you’re not alone. The United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) implemented changes to its Acceptable Identification of Goods and Services Manual (“ID...