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Trademark Office Cancels DC and Marvel Superhero Trademarks
February 14th, 2025
The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) canceled four SUPER HERO trademarks jointly owned by Marvel and DC after a challenge by a comic writer. As TechDirt explains, Scott Richold is a British comic artist who produces the Superbabies line of com…
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Congress and Copyright Office Focus on New AI Digital Image Laws
October 3rd, 2024
The US Congress and the US Copyright Office have been thinking about how laws should be adjusted to deal with artificial intelligence (AI). The US Copyright Office has issued a report recommending the creation of a new federal law that would create a…
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Supreme Court Upholds Refusal of “Trump Too Small” Trademark
The US Supreme Court has ruled that the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) correctly refused to grant a trademark for the phrase “TRUMP TOO SMALL.” During a 2016 presidential primary debate, Senator Rubio of Florida said that then-candidate D…
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OpenAI Wins Trademark Injunction
May 1st, 2024
A California federal court has ruled that a Silicon Valley entrepreneur may not use the trademark “OpenAI” because of a likelihood of confusion with Microsoft’s OpenAI. OpenAI, the founder of the generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool Cha…
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Federal Circuit Overturns Precedent in Dan Tana Restaurant Trademark Case
January 16th, 2024
The Federal Circuit has overturned 50 years of precedent in a trademark case involving a famous West Hollywood restaurant. The case is Great Concepts, LLC v. Chutter, Inc. Great Concepts, LLC appealed the decision of the Trademark Trial and Appeal Bo…
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Duracell Display Sound Can Be Registered as a Trademark
October 16th, 2023
The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) has found that Duracell can register a sensory (sound) mark for “batteries” in International Class 9. As Duracell’s trademark application describes it, The mark is a sound. The mark consists of three…
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US Supreme Court to Hear Case Involving Parody Dog Toys
March 14th, 2023
The US Supreme Court recently agreed to hear a trademark case involving a maker of squeaky dog toys and Jack Daniel’s whiskey. The toy at issue, sold by VIP Products LLC, is called the “Bad Spaniels Silly Squeaker” and it looks something like a…
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The Rise of Biotech Startups: Advancing Science and Medicine through Innovation
February 22nd, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a major impact on various industries globally, but the biotech industry has proven to be resilient. Initially, the pandemic caused a setback in the growth and financial stability of the biotech industry, but as the need…
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How Not to Lose Your Trademark
January 27th, 2023
People sometimes believe that once they file to register their trademark it’s theirs forever, whether they use it or not. But that’s not how it works. As the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) explains, you must specify the reason why you’r…
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Can you own the word “the”?
November 21st, 2022
Can you own the trademark for a basic word like “the”? In some cases, yes. The Ohio State University (OSU) has received a trademark registration for THE in connection with clothing, namely T-shirts, baseball caps and hats. As CNN reported, OSU wo…
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