IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 9, 2025

Introduction Trademarks are valuable assets for businesses; they reflect the identity, reputation and goodwill that a company builds with its target consumer. However, filing for a trademark is one thing; maintaining its continued existence is equally essential. What is meant by trademark abandonment, then? In the U.S.,

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Intepat

OCTOBER 6, 2024

A patent gives the owner exclusive right over their invention for 20 years to commercially exploit it in a manner that prevents others from using, selling, making, or distributing the invention without permission. A patent can be granted when the invention meets certain criteria: Novelty: it must be new and not available in the public domain.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

A company can use a unique typeface to convey pretty much anything on any of its products, its advertising, its website, and any other place a company would publicly use the written word. Namely, anything protected by a design patent will enter the public domain generally 15 years after the patent office issued the design patent.

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Larson & Larson

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

The term covers anything that was sold in public, used publicly, described in a magazine or similar publication, or already has a patent on file with the patent office. It also includes designs that have been published anywhere in the world or things that have been used anywhere in the world.

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IP Intelligence

JULY 19, 2024

Implications for Patent/Trademark Prosecutors and Holders The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently issued guidance on the use of artificial intelligence (AI), particularly generative AI, in Intellectual Property (IP) practices involving documents filed at the USPTO. may result in a breach of export laws.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

At least in its “explicit falsity” prong, though, Rogers tailors potential liability for noncommercial speakers more closely to classic fraud, excluding most noncommercial speech from trademark liability. The answers are yes, no, and sometimes, a list both comprehensive and dismaying. But there are several remaining problems.

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IPilogue

MARCH 27, 2023

Every year on January 1, works protected under copyright law enter into the public domain due to their copyright protection expiring. Although the original Mickey Mouse’s copyright protection will expire at the end of 2023, Disney will still be able to protect the Mickey Mouse brand through trademark law.

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