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The Trademark Protection Playing Field

Erik K Pelton

Goalie – The ultimate protector and backstop: Trademark Registration. Midfield – Both attacking and defensive for protection when needed: Issuing ‘cease and desist’ letters when infringements occur. Offense – goal scoring and attacking: litigating as needed to protect the brand.

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Cease-and-Desist Letter: How to Use It Effectively or Reply

Patent Trademark Blog

Why send a cease-and-desist letter? On its surface, a cease-and-desist letter seems like a less expensive way to enforce intellectual property rights. Need to enforce your patent and trademark rights, or reply to a cease-and-desist letter? In declaratory judgment litigation, the positions are reversed.

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Common Mistakes to Avoid When Registering a Trademark

IP and Legal Filings

Introduction Registration of a trademark is an important step toward building a brand on solid ground. However, the process is quite challenging, and small mistakes can result in everything being disarranged, with regard to causing delays in the application, litigations, or even refusal of the application.

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Four Thoughts Before Bringing a Trademark Infringement Lawsuit

Traverse Legal Blog

A cease and desist letter is typically the most cost-effective option, but in some cases a particularly egregious or blatant instance of trademark infringement can call for initiating a lawsuit. In any scenario, the optimal first move is to try a cease and desist letter. Has your trademark registration ever lapsed?

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Their Copyrights Expired. The Legal Threats Keep Coming.

Copyright Lately

Unfortunately, the mere threat of litigation can be just as effective as an actual lawsuitand a whole lot cheaper. The 1925 copyright registration for the dramatic composition on which Gold Rush was based. for using Tintin, you would lose. Copyright in the film and story both expired in 2020. copyright law.

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Understanding Copyright, Trademark and Halloween Costumes

Plagiarism Today

The name Beetlejuice, for example, has multiple registered trademarks related to it including registration number 4863369, which covers the use in “Clothing for men, women and children…”. Lawsuits around these particular issues are rare and the disputes that do arise typically are handled through cease and desist letters or takedown notices.

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Chegg Is Likely to Prevail on Its Anti-Scraping CFAA Claim…But Doesn’t Get an Injunction–Chegg v. Doe (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

The domain registration is cloaked. Chegg sent a cease-and-desist letter to Homeworkify’s domain registrar, Namecheap, its proxy server, Cloudflare, and the email address associated with domain registration, but they have found nothing. Access after revocation triggers a CFAA claim, not data misuse. Also, this is dicta.