: (Class 46), Managing Intellectual Property guide to trade mark blogs: (Managing Intellectual Property), gTLD expansion ahead: (Managing Intellectual Property), Interview with Hugo Boss general counsel regarding brand protection: (Managing Intellectual Property), When IP rights collide – trade mark rights just one piece of larger IP puzzle when securing brand protection: (Managing Intellectual Property), Iron man: Marvel morphs into a movie studio – Film financing and… [read post]

Fido's Fences, Inc (Property, intangible)   US Trade Marks – Decisions CAFC reverses TTAB’s Bose fraud ruling, eviscerates Medinol: In re Bose Corporation (TTABlog) (TTABlog) (Intellectual Property Law Blog) (IPKat) (Patently-O) (Las Vegas Trademark Attorney) 9th Circuit finds in favour of Paris Hilton in her suit against Hallmark Cards for violating her right of publicity and using her THAT’S HOT registered trademark without permission: Hilton v Hallmark… [read post]

You can separately subscribe to the IP Thinktank Global week in Review at [feeds.feedburner.com]GlobalEvents in Bali heap further pressure on all IP owners: (IAM),Velcro defies generic claim in domain name battle: (OUT-LAW),ICANN forms group to hasten non-English domain names: (IP Justice)WTO members continue debate on geographical indications register: (Intellectual Property Watch),Creative Commons launches CCo and CC programs: (World IP Day),Green IP Strategy - risks… [read post]

Oliviera (No. 17-340; slip op. 15 Jan. 2019) which, along with the concurrence of Justice Ginsberg, are marvels of the craft of strategic semiotics, first by a journeyman who shows great promise in this craft, and then quite masterfully for the compactness of form, employed by one of its great masters of the judicial guild. [read post]