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Alt Legal IP News – Issue #212
How do overlapping trademarks and copyrights affect franchising in the comics industry? The TTAB ruled that British company Tiger Lily Ventures cannot trademark Lehman Br...
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Alt Legal IP News – Issue #210
How does the right to repair compare in the US and Germany? Congress is under pressure to pass a bill allowing hospitals to repair their own medical equipment without fea...
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How to Use a Trademark Consent Agreement to Overcome a 2(d) Refusal
Likelihood of confusion with a prior pending application or registered trademark is one of the most common substantive reasons that an examiner can refuse an applied-for ...
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Stars: They file trademarks just like we do! (Part 2)
While in Part 1, we discussed examples of celebrity trademark strategies that included filing as a method of exploration and filing for seemingly everything, in Part 2, w...
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Stars: They file trademarks just like we do! (Part 1)
Celebrity trademark applications serve many of the same purposes that any business entity's marks do. Some celebrities file applications to protect their names and catch ...
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Alt Legal IP News – Issue # 197
Metallica and the band's co-manager Cliff Burnstein have been acquiring IP rights to various song catalogs, including tons of classic rock. Eminem's publisher is alleging...
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