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 […]

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 […]