by Angela Langlotz | Jun 11, 2018 | Trademark Registration, Trademark Usage, Trademarks |
When you file your trademark application, eventually, you have to submit a “specimen.” What’s a “specimen?” Recall that you have to actually USE a trademark to have trademark rights. When you file an application based on your use of the mark, you have to show that you...
by Angela Langlotz | Jun 5, 2018 | Trademark Registration, Trademark Usage, Trademarks |
Are your trademarks suggestive? If so, hurray for you, because “suggestive” marks make some of the very best trademarks. Why? Because they suggest — but don’t come right out and describe — certain qualities about the product associated with the mark. These...
by Angela Langlotz | May 29, 2018 | Copyright Infringement, Copyrights |
Who owns your selfies? You do. And as the copyright holder, you have the right to prevent others from making copies of them or using them in a “derivative work.” Copyright law gives artists and creators the right to the exclusive use of their work the moment the...
by Angela Langlotz | May 24, 2018 | Trademark Infringement, Trademark Opposition Proceedings, Trademark Registration, Trademarks |
We have another episode of Trademark Wars! It seems grocery giant Trader Joe’s — my favorite grocery store! — has fended off the predations of a naughty infringer, bent on using the fame of the Trader Joe’s name to promote their own goods. Naughty...
by Angela Langlotz | May 21, 2018 | Trademarks |
A “fanciful” trademark is a made-up name that only exists to function as a trademark; it has no meaning apart from that. They don’t mean anything in the English language (or in any language, for that matter), and are in essence “neologisms” (that’s a fancy word for a...
