Our Client Tulip Announces $13 Million Series A Round to Digitally Transform Manufacturing Operations
Congratulations to the Tulip team! https://tulip.co/press/series-a
L3 Technologies Acquires Our Client Open Water Power
Congratulations to the OWP team! https://seekingalpha.com/article/4075376-l3-technologies-acquire-open-water-power-underwater-energy-tech
Article in The Economist on our client Open Water Power!
The Economist ran an article today concerning our client Open Water Power’s patent pending aluminum batteries for underwater applications. It’s an interesting read, and we’re proud to share it with you. Click here for the article.
“I’ll Have What She’s Having” – Trademark Troubles in Craft Brewing
In case you haven’t been to your local “packie” lately, craft breweries are popping up faster than a hops vine. Occurring in tandem with this proliferation of breweries and quirky beer names, are incidents of breweries clashing over their names and the names of their products. We’re not the first to discuss this phenomenon, but […]
“I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change” – Evolution of Trademark Coverage Over Time
Recently, I was discussing with a client a topic that I think is often overlooked by businesses. If you’ve been following us for a while, you know we’re [perhaps not surprisingly] big proponents of businesses registering their trademarks at the federal level. Although obtaining a registration is an important part of protecting the goodwill that […]
No “Do-overs”: The Importance of Correctly Identifying Goods/Services in a Trademark Application
Since our last blog post, we’ve been on the lookout for other cautionary tales that highlight some basic aspects of trademark and copyright law. Sadly, it didn’t take long, as highlighted in a recent post from The TTABlog® addressing the importance of getting your description of goods/services right. The application at issue was for the […]
The Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA)
Sorry, folks, no cheeky title here – this is serious business. Theft of trade secrets is a significant threat to businesses, and the country’s economic growth – by some estimates, trade secret theft and economic espionage cost the U.S. economy tens, and perhaps even hundreds, of billions of dollars each year (see https://www.fbi.gov/news/testimony/combating-economic-espionage-and-trade-secret-theft). On the […]
Options for a Statement of Use Deadline – a Poem
Roses are red, violets are blue, when faced with a Statement of Use deadline in an ITU application and some but not all of the applied-for goods/services are in use, what’s one to do? Now that we’re done with THAT, on to the good stuff. Once a trademark application that is based on an “intent-to-use” […]
The End [of EU trademark law as we know it] is Nigh!
O.K., that may be overstating things a bit, but big changes are on the horizon for trademarks in the EU. As background: member nations of the EU maintain their own trademark regulations and registration systems, and are also part of a separate EU body called the “Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market” (“OHIM”), which […]
Someone is using the exact same mark as me. I’m suing them!
As one of my law school professors used to say, “Well, wait a minute.” As in all areas of the law, success in a trademark lawsuit is anything but a given, no matter how “airtight” a case you think you have. There are a variety of factors involved in deciding whether to institute formal litigation […]