The Alt Legal Resource Library contains our full collection of resources ranging from blog articles to Alt Legal Webinars to Alt Legal Connect sessions, all of which cover important topics relating to IP practice, law practice management, and IP news and current events. Click on topics within the index below to find helpful, practical resources that will help you in your day-to-day practice.
IP Practice
- International Trademark Prosecution
- USPTO Trademark Prosecution
- USPTO Trademark Searching
- USPTO Office Actions
- Trademark Monitoring
- Trademark Modernization Act
- IP Licensing and Other Agreements
- Copyright, Design Patents, Domains, and Other IP
- Cannabis and IP
- NFTs, the Metaverse, and IP
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Fashion and IP
- Food, Beer, and Wine IP Protection
- Non-traditional Trademarks
- IP Litigation and TTAB
- Anti-Counterfeiting
- Advertising Law
- IP Practice + Law Schools
Practice Management
- Legal Technology
- Law Firm Management and Solo Practitioners
- Law Firm Marketing
- In-House Counsel
- Diversity and the Law
- Ethics and IP
- IP Paralegals, Legal Assistants, Docketing Specialists, etc.
- IP Docketing Basics and Docketing Software
IP News & Current Events
International Trademark Prosecution
General
- Alt Legal Webinar: International Interactions: Aligning communication between clients & foreign agents
- Alt Legal Connect Session Summary: Traversing the Universe of Global Trademark Protection
- Alt Legal Connect Session Summary: At Home and Abroad: Building a Strong International Brand
- Blog Article: Brands without Borders: How to run cheaper, better international knockout searches
WIPO
- Blog Article: WIPO Basics: Key considerations, from cost to culture, when filing trademarks around the world
- Blog Article: What Trademark Attorneys Need to Know about Marks in Foreign Languages
- Alt Legal Webinar: Why go WIPO? Key considerations, from cost to culture, when filing trademarks around the world
Country- and Region-Specific Trademark Law
- Alt Legal Webinar: A Great Wall of Difference: Key distinctions between US and Chinese trademark systems (and the troubles they can cause)
- Alt Legal Webinar: Mark Your Territory in the EU: Enforcement strategies for EU trademarks
- Alt Legal Webinar: A Pacific Strategy: Securing trademarks in Southeast Asia
- Alt Legal Webinar: Jamaican It Easy to Keep this Secret: Peculiarities of Jamaican trademarks
- Alt Legal Webinar: Trademark Tequila Sunrise: Blending US and Mexican Trademarks with a Twist
- Blog Article: From Maple Leaves to Eagles: How Descriptive Trademarks Differ in Canada and the U.S.
- Alt Legal Webinar: Maple News: Updates in Canadian Trademark Law
- Alt Legal Webinar: Europe Next: How to secure European trademarks
- Alt Legal Webinar: Two Nations Divided by a Common Language: Similarities and Dissimilarities in UK and US Trade Marks
- Alt Legal Webinar: Canadian Trademarks: Like the United States, but… Different
Submarine Trademarks and §44(d) Filings
- Blog Article: Keep It on the 44(D)ownlow: Filing Trademark Applications Abroad to Preserve Confidentiality and Priority
- Blog Article: Tongan Shell Game: How Apple and Google File Trademarks
USPTO Trademark Prosecution
General
- eBook: Introduction to USPTO Trademark Prosecution
- Blog Article: A Matter of Principal: Clarifying Principal v. Supplemental Registers
- Blog Article: Uncommon Knowledge: Priority and Common Law Trademark Rights
Prosecution Tips from Examining Attorneys
- Alt Legal Webinar: Upon Further Examination: Trademark Applications from the Examiner’s Perspective
- Blog Article: Top 12 Trademark Prosecution Tips from a USPTO Examiner
- Alt Legal Connect Session Summary: USPTO Updates: USPTO representatives explain recent and upcoming changes
- Alt Legal Connect Session Summary: A Thorough Examination: An Interview with a Recent Trademark Examiner
Generic and Descriptive Trademarks
- Blog Article: How to Counsel Clients Who Propose Generic and Descriptive Marks: A Video Q&A with IP Attorney Candice Cook
- Alt Legal Connect Session Summary: When It Isn’t What It Is: Maintaining Brand Distinctiveness and Avoiding “Genericide”
- Blog Article: Q&A With David Postolski: Responding to Generic and Descriptive Office Actions
- Alt Legal Webinar: Who You Calling Generic?: Responding to Generic and Descriptive Office Actions
Specimens
- Blog Article: Spectacular Specimens
- Blog Article: Combating Fake Specimens, Trademark Clutter and Depletion: An Interview with NYU Law Professor Jeanne Fromer
Use in Commerce
TTAB
- Alt Legal Connect Session Summary: Live TTAB Hearing
- Alt Legal Connect Session Summary: Be Fab with TTAB: Tips for Successfully Pursuing, Defending, and Settling TTAB Disputes
Other Trademark Prosecution Issues
- Alt Legal Webinar: Courting Public Opinion: Developing Survey Evidence
- Alt Legal Webinar: We Don’t Want Everyone 2(c): Protecting famous clients’ identities
- Blog Article: Keep It on the 44(D)ownlow: Filing Trademark Applications Abroad to Preserve Confidentiality and Priority
- Blog Article: Tongan Shell Game: How Apple and Google File Trademarks
- Blog Article: Combating Fake Specimens, Trademark Clutter and Depletion: An Interview with NYU Law Professor Jeanne Fromer
- Alt Legal Connect Session Summary: What You Need to Know about the USPTO’s Post-Registration Audit Program
USPTO Trademark Searching
- Blog Article: Answers for Searching: Using USPTO Trademark Search: Do I need to capitalize in searches?
- Blog Article: Answers for Searching: Using USPTO Trademark Search: When should I break up a compound word when searching?
- Blog Article: Answers for Searching: Using USPTO Trademark Search: When should I use phonetic equivalents, and how do they work?
- Blog Article: Answers for Searching: Using USPTO Trademark Search: How many marks should I be aiming for in my search?
- Blog Article: Answers for Searching: Using USPTO Trademark Search: How can I narrow results if I get too many?
- Blog Article: Answers for Searching: Using USPTO Trademark Search: How can I translate X-searches to searches on the new search system?
- Blog Article: Answers for Searching: Using USPTO Trademark Search: What do I need to know about conducting live/dead searches?
- Blog Article: Answers for Searching: Using USPTO Trademark Search: Can you point out the more important (and important but underutilized) field codes?
- Blog Article: Answers for Searching: Using USPTO Trademark Search: How do I search by attorney of record? How do I search for the number of trademarks I filed in a given year?
- Blog Article: Answers for Searching: Using USPTO Trademark Search: Can you point out the more important (and important but underutilized) field codes?
- Blog Article: Answers for Searching: Using USPTO Trademark Search: What do I need to know about conducting live/dead searches?
- Blog Article: Answers for Searching: Using USPTO Trademark Search: How can I translate X-searches to searches on the new search system?
- Blog Article: Answers for Searching: Using USPTO Trademark Search: How do I specify which vowels should be allowed in my search?
- Blog Article: About the USPTO’s New Trademark Search System
- Blog Article: USPTO Trademark Search: Sound Matching
- Blog Article: Answers for Searching: Using USPTO Trademark Search: How do I search for disclaimers?
- Blog Article: Answers for Searching: Using USPTO Trademark Search: How do I effectively search for goods and services?
- Blog Article: Answers for Searching: Using USPTO Trademark Search: What is the best way to conduct searches for plurals?
- Blog Article: Answers for Searching: Using USPTO Trademark Search: When and how should I use truncation in my search?
- Blog Article: Answers for Searching: Using USPTO Trademark Search: What are coordinated classes, and how do I add them to my search?
- Blog Article: Answers for Searching: Using USPTO Trademark Search: What is the best browser to use when conducting USPTO searches?
- Blog Article: Answers for Searching: Using USPTO Trademark Search: Any tips for best conducting design mark searches?
- Blog Article: Answers for Searching: Using USPTO Trademark Search: Where do I submit feedback?
- Blog Article: Answers for Searching: Using USPTO Trademark Search: Why did the USPTO retire TESS and replace it with this new system?
- Blog Article: How to Search Using the USPTO’s New Trademark Search Tool
- Blog Article: How to Search TESS like a Trademark Examiner
- Alt Legal Webinar: Search Party: Basic Principles of TESS Searches
- Alt Legal Webinar: Alt Legal Webinar: Searching Rescue: Advanced TESS Searches
- Blog Article: A Coordinated Effort: How to use the USPTO’s Coordinated Classes to perform better knock out searches
- Blog Article: Top 12 Trademark Prosecution Tips from a USPTO Examiner
USPTO Office Actions
Office Actions – Generally
- Blog Article: How to Respond to USPTO Office Actions
- Alt Legal Connect Session Summary: Spring into (Office) Action: Dealing with and Overcoming OA Refusals
- Alt Legal Webinar: Office Actions, Rejections, and Pivoting, Oh My!
Refusal for §2(d) Likelihood of Confusion
- Alt Legal Webinar: What’s DuPont of These Factors?: Assessing and applying the DuPont factors
- Alt Legal Webinar: Let’s Not Agree 2(D)isagree: Combatting likelihood of confusion office actions
- Blog Article: In 2(d)eep: How to Effectively Respond to 2(d) Refusals
- Blog Article: Overcoming a §2(d) Likelihood of Confusion Office Action | Part I: Securing a Trademark Registration on the Principal Register
- Blog Article: Overcoming a §2(d) Likelihood of Confusion Office Action | Part 2: Entering into a Consent Agreement with Parties Cited in Refusal
- Blog Article: Overcoming a §2(d) Likelihood of Confusion Office Action | Part 3: Canceling the Cited Mark and Seeking Registration on the Supplemental Register
- Alt Legal Connect Session Summary: Spring into (Office) Action: Dealing with and Overcoming OA Refusals
- Blog Article: How to Use a Trademark Consent Agreement to Overcome a 2(d) Refusal
Refusal for Failure to Function
- Blog Article: Introduction to Failure to Function Refusals
- Blog Article: Failure to Function: Ornamental Refusals
- Blog Article: Failure to Function – Informational Matters, Widely Used Messages, and Religious Text
- Blog Article: What’s Your Major Malfunction?: Breaking Down the USPTO’s Strange New Breed of Failure to Function Refusals
Refusal for Generic/Descriptive Matter
- Alt Legal Connect Session Summary: When It Isn’t What It Is: Maintaining Brand Distinctiveness and Avoiding “Genericide”
- Blog Article: Q&A With David Postolski: Responding to Generic and Descriptive Office Actions
- Alt Legal Webinar: Who You Calling Generic?: Responding to Generic and Descriptive Office Actions
- Blog Article: How to Counsel Clients Who Propose Generic and Descriptive Marks: A Video Q&A with IP Attorney Candice Cook
Other Refusals
- Blog Article: Joke Gone Unanimously Wrong: SCOTUS Decision in Bad Spaniels and the Future of First Amendment and Lanham Act Cases
- Blog Article: Bad Spaniels Before the Supreme Court: How the Case Could Affect the Tension Between the Lanham Act and the First Amendment
- Blog Article: How to Respond to Section 2(e)(4) Surname Refusals: A Video Q&A with IP Attorney John Miranda
- Blog Article: A Distinct Category: How to Overcome a 2(e)(1) Refusal
Acquired Distinctiveness – Overcoming Refusals
- Blog Article: What the 2(f)?: Demonstrating Acquired Distinctiveness
Trademark Monitoring
- Alt Legal Webinar: Watch Your Revenue Grow: Monetizing Alt Legal’s Trademark Protection Service
- Blog Article: How to Set Up a §2(d) Citation Watch
- Blog Article: Creating Passive, Subscription Revenue for your Trademark Practice with Alt Legal Trademark Protection
- Blog Article: Monetizing Alt Legal Trademark Application Match+ Tips to Help You Increase Revenue
- Alt Legal Webinar: Meet Your Match: Introducing Alt Legal Trademark Application Match
- Blog Article: Alt Legal Success Stories: Using §2(d) Trademark Watch to Protect Marks and Gain New Business
- Blog Article: Monitoring Trademarks: Protect Against Infringement and Maintain Brand Integrity
- Blog Article: What is a Trademark Watch Service?
- Blog Article: Monetizing Alt Legal’s §2(d) Trademark Watch+ Tips to Help you Build More Business
- Blog Article: Alt Legal Webinar: 2(D)iscover Potential Infringement: Using Alt Legal’s §2(d) Watch Effectively
- Blog Article: Policing your clients’ marks with a §2(d) Watch Service and More
- Blog Article: How to Use Alt Legal’s Section 2(d) Trademark Watch Service to Generate New Business and Impress Your Clients
Trademark Modernization Act
TMA – Generally
- Alt Legal Connect Session Summary: The Ex-Filings: Expungements and ReExaminations Explained
- Blog Article: USPTO Update: The Trademark Modernization Act – One Year In
- Blog Article: A PI’s Pringles® — TMA Filings
- Blog Article: A PI’s Perspective: How to Conduct Reasonable Investigations for Expungement & Reexamination Proceedings
- Blog Article: USPTO Webinar Summary: Insight into TMA Nonuse Cancellation Petitions
- Blog Article: How to File an Expungement or Reexamination Proceeding: Step-by-Step TEAS Form Guidance
- Blog Article: USPTO Update: TMA Expungement and Reexamination Proceedings
- Blog Article: The Trademark Modernization Act (TMA)’s New Reexamination Procedure
- Blog Article: The Trademark Modernization Act (TMA)’s New Expungement Procedure
- Blog Article: USPTO Implements Trademark Modernization Act (TMA) Final Rule
- Alt Legal Webinar: Acting on the Trademark Modernization Act: How the implementation of the TMA will affect your practice
- Blog Article: Modernize Your Approach to Trademarks: Understanding the Trademark Modernization Act
- Alt Legal Webinar: Restoration by Modernization: How the Trademark Modernization Act of 2020 Supports Consumer Expectations and Promotes Access to Justice
Letters of Protest
- Blog Article: Letters of Protest: Provide Convincing Evidence for Successful LOPs
- Blog Article: Letters of Protest: Practical Tips for Filing a Successful LOP
- Blog Article: Filing Letters of Protest
IP Licensing and Other Agreements
- Alt Legal Webinar: License to Thrive: Structuring trademark agreements for client success
- Alt Legal Webinar: As the Need Franchises: Licensing vs. Franchising in IP
- Blog Article: Overcoming a §2(d) Likelihood of Confusion Office Action | Part 2: Entering into a Consent Agreement with Parties Cited in Refusal
- Alt Legal Connect Session Summary: Licensing: Using Trademarks and Copyrights as Business Assets
- Blog Article: How to Use a Trademark Consent Agreement to Overcome a 2(d) Refusal
Copyright, Design Patents, Domains and Other IP
- Alt Legal Webinar: Trade Dress Rehearsal: Strategies to perfect your trade dress practice
- Blog Article: Help Your Trademark Clients Avoid Patent Infringement Claims: Freedom to Operate Opinions
- Blog Article: 10 Things Every Trademark Attorney Should Know About Patents
- Blog Article: What are the 4 Types of Intellectual Property?
- Alt Legal Webinar: Overlapping Your Boundaries: Layering copyrights, patents, and trade dress to bolster brand protection
- Alt Legal Webinar: Copyright and Copywrong: What trademark attorneys need to know about copyright
- Blog Article: The Difference Between Trademarks and Design Patents: What you need to know
- Blog Article: What’s Not to Like?: The Growing Problem of Fake Online Reviews & Social Media Accounts
- Blog Article: Turning the Page: Dotcom Trademark Registrations Following Booking.com
- Blog Article: To the Left, to the Left: An Introduction to Copyleft and Open Source Software
- Alt Legal Webinar: Open Source: The Trademark Awakens
- Blog Article: Memes and IP Protection
- Blog Article: What are Esports? A Video Q&A with IP Attorney Anna Chang
- Alt Legal Connect Session Summary: Licensing: Using Trademarks and Copyrights as Business Assets
- Alt Legal Webinar: #IP #TRADEMARKS: New Media, Hashtags, Trademarks & Brand Protection
- Alt Legal Webinar: Alt Legal Webinar: No More Reservations for Booking.com: Courts Confirm It’s a Trademark
Cannabis and IP
- Alt Legal Webinar: High Hopes: Cannabis Trademark Applications at the USPTO
- Alt Legal Connect Session Summary: Getting into the Weeds: Cannabis Law and IP Protection
- Alt Legal Webinar: Up in Smoke: How to Protect Cannabis Brands
NFTs, the Metaverse, and IP
- Alt Legal Webinar: A Tangled Web(3): Introduction to Web3 for IP Lawyers
- Blog Article: Top NFT Intellectual Property Disputes in 2022
- Alt Legal Webinar: What’s the Meta with You?: Trademark protection in the metaverse
- Alt Legal Webinar: Fun With Non-Fungibles: NFT and Blockchain Basics for IP Attorneys
- Blog Article: What IP Attorneys Need to Know About Cryptocurrency and NFTs: An Interview with Moish Peltz
- Blog Article: What do Trademark Attorneys Need to Know About NFTs?
Artificial Intelligence
- Alt Legal and Corsearch Live: AI on the Prize: Ethical considerations for emerging technologies
- Alt Legal and Corsearch Live: The AI Brandwagon: Why AI is becoming so popular for trademark practice
Fashion and IP
- Alt Legal Webinar: Take It to the Runway: Succeeding in Fashion IP Law
Food, Beer, and Wine IP Protection
- Alt Legal Webinar: See Your Practice Through Rosé-Colored Glasses: Brand Protection for Wine Lawyers
- Alt Legal Webinar: Keeping IP in the IPAs: The Bitter Truth about Trademarks for Breweries
- Alt Legal Webinar: Win/Win Partnerships: In-House and Outside Counsel Collaboration on Trademarks in the Restaurant Industry
- Alt Legal Webinar: Creative Strategies for IP Protection in the Food Industry
Non-traditional Trademarks
- Alt Legal Webinar: Trade Dress Rehearsal: Strategies to perfect your trade dress practice
- Alt Legal Connect Session Summary: Trade Dress for Success: Strategies for securing trade dress protection
- Blog Article: Behind the Jingles: Legal Strategies to Protect Sound Trademarks
- Alt Legal Connect Session Summary: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Nontraditional Trademarks (But Were Afraid to Ask)
IP Litigation and TTAB
- Alt Legal Webinar: What’s the Litigation? What trademark prosecutors need to know about litigation
- Alt Legal Connect Session Summary: In High Demand: Crafting effective and creative demand letters
- Alt Legal Connect Session Summary: Be Fab with TTAB: Tips for Successfully Pursuing, Defending, and Settling TTAB Disputes
- Alt Legal Connect Session Summary: Filing Trademarks with an Eye Towards Litigation
Anti-Counterfeiting
- Alt Legal Webinar: Of Particular Import: Protecting Brands from Infringing Imports
Advertising Law
- Alt Legal Connect Session Summary: Nothing Compares to Using Others’ Brands?: Limitations of comparative advertising
IP Practice + Law School
- Blog Article: Law Students are Learning Trademark Law with Alt Legal: Scott Sisun Instructs Students at the NYLS USPTO Trademark Clinic Using Alt Legal
- Blog Article: A Law Student’s Guide to Becoming a Trademark Lawyer
Legal Technology
- TMAE Webinar: Change Your Outlook on Technology: Finding efficiencies and developing automations using software you already have
- Blog Article: Essential IP Law Practice Technology: Practice Management Software and IP Docketing Software
- Blog Article: Creating Passive, Subscription Revenue for your Trademark Practice with Alt Legal Trademark Protection
- Blog Article: How Automated IP Docketing Can Improve Your ROI
- Alt Legal Connect Session Summary: Put Your Money Where Your Market Is: Where and How to Market Your Firm to Maximize ROI
- Blog Article: Differentiate Your Trademark Practice with Docketing Access for Clients
- Alt Legal Webinar: Teching Your Time Back: Easy ways to automate legal tasks
- Blog Article: Best-in-Class or All-In-One IP Docketing Software? Which is Better?
- Blog Article: Best-In-Class or All-In-One Legal Technology? Which is Better?
- Blog Article: Trademark Docketing Software Features Checklist: Organize Your Evaluation
- Blog Article: Top Tech Tools for Lawyers in 2021
- Blog Article: Top 5 Trademark Docketing System “Must Haves”
- Blog Article: With Alt Legal, Migration Isn’t Scary!
- Alt Legal Connect Session Summary: Top Technology Tools to Streamline Your Practice
- Blog Article: Tips for Building Your Law Firm Technology Stack
- Firm Forward Webinar: Legal Tech for Building and Maintaining Client Relationships for IP Firms
Law Firm Management and Solo Practitioners
- Blog Article: Unlocking the Value Within: How to Prepare Your Law Firm for Success in Selling, Merging, or Being Acquired
- Alt Legal Webinar: Referral Revenue Service: The ethics and economics of legal referrals
- Blog Article: Wind Down Your Trademark Practice with Alt Legal
- Blog Article: How to Make Conversations About Bad News Less Awkward
- Blog Article: Starting a Solo IP Practice
- Alt Legal Webinar: Firming Up Your Plans: How to start your law practice
- Blog Article: Finding a Niche Practice Area: Ballet Law
- Blog Article: Hitting the Brakes on Employee Turnover During the “Great Resignation”
- Alt Legal Connect Session Summary: Put Your Money Where Your Market Is: Where and How to Market Your Firm to Maximize ROI
- Alt Legal Connect Session Summary: From Handshakes to Elbow Bumps: Tools, tips, and technology for winning new business in the #NewNormal
- Blog Article: Differentiate Your Trademark Practice with Docketing Access for Clients
- Alt Legal Webinar: Teching Your Time Back: Easy ways to automate legal tasks
- Blog Article: Top Tech Tools for Lawyers in 2021
- Alt Legal Webinar: Take the Cry out of Crisis: Preparing Your Firm for the Unexpected
- Blog Article: Implementing Your Law Firm Crisis Response Plan
- Alt Legal Webinar: Virtually Perfect Practice: Making your virtual law firm succeed
- Alt Legal Connect Session Summary: Bootstrapping Your Practice
- Alt Legal Connect Session Summary: Creating a Client-Centered Law Firm
- Alt Legal Connect Session Summary: Building a Subscription Practice
- Alt Legal Connect Session Summary: Top Technology Tools to Streamline Your Practice
- Blog Article: Tips for Building Your Law Firm Technology Stack
- Alt Legal Webinar: Impeccable Intake
- Firm Forward Webinar: Legal Tech for Building and Maintaining Client Relationships for IP Firms
- Alt Legal Webinar: Getting to 100%: Managing receivables, avoiding missed payments, and maintaining sufficient revenues in this crazy time
Law Firm Marketing
- Blog Article: Generating Content for Trademark Client Acquisition
- Alt Legal Connect Session Summary: Market to Your Heart’s Content: Creating content to generate business
- Alt Legal Webinar: On Your Mark(eting): Planning for a successful 2023
- Blog Article: Advertising for Lawyers: Rapid Client Acquisition with Google Ads
- Blog Article: 5 Ways to Leverage Instagram to Get Clients for Your Law Firm
- Alt Legal Connect Session Summary: Putting the Buzz Back in Blogging: New Tips for a Mature Medium
- Alt Legal Connect Session Summary: Marketing Sense: Ensuring your marketing is ethics compliant
- Alt Legal Connect Session Summary: From Handshakes to Elbow Bumps: Tools, tips, and technology for winning new business in the #NewNormal
- Blog Article: Differentiate Your Trademark Practice with Docketing Access for Clients
- Alt Legal Webinar: Stop Marketing up the Wrong Tree: Make 2021 Your Best (Business Development) Year Ever!
- Blog Article: Checklist: How to Write Your 2021 Business Development Plan
- Alt Legal Connect Session Summary: Bootstrapping Your Practice
- Alt Legal Connect Session Summary: Creating a Client-Centered Law Firm
- Alt Legal Connect Session Summary: Growing Your Practice with Digital Marketing
- Alt Legal Connect Session Summary: Alt Legal Connect Session Summary: What In-house Clients Really Want and How to Deliver It
- Alt Legal Connect Session Summary: The Wow Factor: Differentiating Yourself and Your Legal Practice
- Alt Legal Webinar: Nailing Your Niche: Establishing Expertise to Generate Publicity
- Alt Legal Webinar: Marketing in the Midst of the COVID-19 Crisis
- Alt Legal Webinar: How to capture and serve clients better in the new work-from-home age
In-House Counsel
- Alt Legal and Corsearch Live: Cents and Sensibility: Practical approaches to running a lean in-house trademark team
- Blog Article: How Automated IP Docketing Can Help In-House Counsel Contain Costs
- Alt Legal Connect Session Summary: Alt Legal Connect Session Summary: What In-house Clients Really Want and How to Deliver It
- Alt Legal Webinar: Win/Win Partnerships: In-House and Outside Counsel Collaboration on Trademarks in the Restaurant Industry
Diversity and the Law
- Alt Legal Webinar: Tribe and True: Strategies for serving Native American trademark clients
- Blog Article: Protecting Our Culture, One Trademark at a Time
- Alt Legal Connect Session Summary: When Imitation Is Not Flattering: Cultural appropriation in trademarks
- Blog Article: 5 Hispanic/Latinx Icons and How They’ve Protected Their Trademarks
- Alt Legal Webinar: IP Matters: Practical ways that IP lawyers can advance social justice
- Blog Article: Top Ways IP Lawyers Can Advance Social Justice
- Blog Article: Honoring Martin Luther King Jr.: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Law
- Blog Article: Play Ball and Drop the “Chop”: Celebrating Fall Sports and Indigenous People
- Alt Legal Connect Session Summary: IP Matters: Practical ways that IP lawyers can advance social justice
- Alt Legal Connect Session Summary: Defining Diversity
- Alt Legal Connect Session Summary: Culturally Relevant Representation
- Blog Article: Black Lives Matter
- Blog Article: Black Lives Matter Lawyer Resource Page
Ethics and IP
- Alt Legal and Corsearch Live: AI on the Prize: Ethical considerations for emerging technologies
- Blog Article: IP Management Software and Ethical Considerations
- Alt Legal Connect Session Summary: Claim on You!: Proactive steps you can take to avoid IP malpractice claims
- Alt Legal Webinar: Trademark Ethics – Five Things That Might Keep You Up At Night
- Alt Legal Connect Session Summary: Marketing Sense: Ensuring your marketing is ethics compliant
- Alt Legal Connect Session Summary: A Trademark Attorney’s Guide to the OED – and How to Avoid Inadvertent Ethical Violations
IP Paralegals, Legal Assistants, Docketing Specialists, etc.
- Blog Article: Benchmarking Trademark Administrators’ Salaries
- TMAE Webinar: Deboracle: Sage Advice from Deborah Hampton (Part 5)
- Blog Article: Conference Attendance Tips for Trademark Paralegals and Administrators: Persuading your manager to invest in your professional development and making the most of your conference experience
- TMAE Webinar: Deboracle: Sage Advice from Deborah Hampton (Part 4)
- TMAE Webinar: The PATH to Conference Attendance
- TMAE Webinar: Deboracle: Sage Advice from Deboarh Hampton (Part 3)
- TMAE Webinar: Deboracle: Sage Advice from Deboarh Hampton (Part 2)
- Blog Article: Developing Your Career Path as a Trademark Paralegal or Trademark Administrator (TMA)
- TMAE Webinar: Deboracle: Sage Advice from Deborah Hampton
- TMAE Webinar: TradeMastery: The art of salary negotiations for TMAs
- Alt Legal Resource Page: Trademark Paralegal Resources
- Alt Legal Trademark Paralegal Course
- Trademark Administrators’ Exchange (TMAE)
- Blog Article: What Does an IP Docketing Specialist Do?
- Blog Article: Four Ways to Build Internal Buy-In For Moving to a New IP Docketing Platform: Alt Legal shares experiences of helping customers make the move
- Alt Legal Webinar: Virtual Paralegal 101 – How to successfully support stakeholders while working remotely
IP Docketing Basics and IP Docketing Software
- Blog Article: Monetize Your Alt Legal IP Docketing Software by Implementing a Client Technology Fee
- Blog Article: Who Manages IP in a Company?
- Blog Article: Top 10 Mistakes in Trademark Docketing
- Blog Article: Top 10 Benefits of Trademark Docketing
- Blog Article: What is IP Docketing?
- Blog Article: Top 8 Tips for Effective Trademark Docketing
- Blog Article: Essential IP Law Practice Technology: Practice Management Software and IP Docketing Software
- Blog Article: How Automated IP Docketing Can Help In-House Counsel Contain Costs
- Blog Article: How Automated IP Docketing Can Improve Your ROI
- Blog Article: IP Management Software and Ethical Considerations
- Blog Article: Why Is Trademark Docketing Important for Brand Protection?
- Blog Article: Why is Docketing Necessary?
- Blog Article: What is IP Management Software and Who Needs it?
- Blog Article: Trademark Docketing Software Tools for Managing Your Law Firm
- Blog Article: Tips for Effectively Managing Deadlines in a Trademark Docketing Software System
- Blog Article: What is a Trademark Docket Number and Trademark Reference Number?
- Blog Article: What’s the difference between IP Docketing Software, Patent Docketing Software, and Trademark Docketing Software?
- Blog Article: What is the Best Trademark Docketing System?
- Blog Article: Using Your Trademark Docketing Software to Increase Revenue: How to Monetize Trademark Docketing Software to Improve Your Bottom Line
- Blog Article: Why is Trademark and IP Docketing Software Important?
- Blog Article: What is a Docketing System?
- Blog Article: Assessing Trademark Docketing Software Reviews
- Blog Article:When “Automation” Isn’t REALLY Automation
- Blog Article: Best-in-Class or All-In-One IP Docketing Software? Which is Better?
- Blog Article: Best-In-Class or All-In-One Legal Technology? Which is Better?
- Blog Article: Trademark Docketing Software Features Checklist: Organize Your Evaluation
- Blog Article: Top 5 Trademark Docketing System “Must Haves”
- Blog Article: With Alt Legal, Migration Isn’t Scary!
- Blog Article: How Much Does Trademark Docketing Software Cost?
- Blog Article: How to Pick The Best IP Docketing Software or Trademark Docketing Software
- Blog Article: Free IP Docketing Software: Does it Exist?
- Blog Article: What is IP Law Firm Docketing Software?
- Blog Article: How to Migrate to Your New Trademark Docketing System
- Blog Article: What is trademark docketing?
- Blog Article: 4 Ways Faulty Docketing Can Cost You
IP News and Current Events
General IP and Trademark News
- Blog Article: Making Dollars & Sense of the USPTO’s New Trademark Application Fees
- Alt Legal Webinar: Trademark Issues Big and TOO SMALL: Recapping 2024’s top trademark developments
- Alt Legal Webinar: Cultural Currents: Top trademark and copyright issues from 2023
- Blog Article: Strike That
- Alt Legal Connect Session Summary: Go with the Current: Recent changes in IP law
- Blog Article: Economy Dips, Trademark Applications Soar: Yet Another Unexpected Outcome of 2020
- Alt Legal Connect Session Summary: InRecent Exposure: Current Topics in Trademark Law
- Blog Article: Combating Fake Specimens, Trademark Clutter and Depletion: An Interview with NYU Law Professor Jeanne Fromer
- Blog Article: Trademarks Making Headlines
- Blog Article: Trademark Applications Boom after COVID-driven Decline
- Blog Article: Stars: They file trademarks just like we do! (Part 1)
- Blog Article: Stars: They file trademarks just like we do! (Part 2)
- Blog Article: Activism or Opportunism? Protests Inspire New Trademark Applications
- Blog Article: USPTO Announces Expiration of Certain Extensions and Fee Waivers
- Blog Article: Masking a Problem
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