Intellectual property trademark law information from Intellectual Property Attorneys Baker and Rannells, PA.
The Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act(ACPA), 15 U.S.C. § 1125(d), is an American law enacted in 1999 and established a cause of action for registering, trafficking in, or using a domain [...]
In trademark treatises it is usually reported that blacksmiths who made swords in the Roman Empire are thought of as being the first users of trademarks. Other notable trademarks that [...]
In most systems, a trademark can be registered if it is able to distinguish the goods or services of a party, will not confuse consumers about the relationship between one [...]
Trademarks rights must be maintained through actual lawful use of the trademark. These rights will cease if a mark is not actively used for a period of time, normally 5 [...]
A trademark is diluted when the use of similar or identical trademarks in other non‐competing markets means that the trademark in and of itself will lose its capacity to signify [...]
In various jurisdictions a trademark may be sold with or without the underlying goodwill which subsists in the business associated with the mark. However, this is not the case in [...]
In the United States, the USPTO maintains a database of registered trademarks. The database is open to the public; however a licensed attorney may be required to interpret the search [...]
Terms such as "mark", "brand" and "logo" are sometimes used interchangeably with "trademark". "Trademark", however, also includes any device, brand, label, name, signature, word, letter, numerical, shape of goods, packaging, [...]
Somewhere near the banks of the oft-overflowing Passaic River in Clifton, New Jersey, there exists a roadside greasy spoon known for its fried “ripper” hot dogs known as Rutt’s Hut [...]