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Alt Legal Connect Preview – An Interview with Panelist Kelu Sullivan
Alt Legal is looking forward to hosting its second annual virtual trademark conference, Alt Legal Connect, on September 13-15, 2021. One of the sessions in our amazing li...
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Alt Legal IP News – Issue #245
The USPTO is going after a Chinese law firm they say has "engag[ed] in unauthorized practice before the USPTO" and provided "false, fictitious, or fraudulent information ...
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Alt Legal IP News – Issue #242
Yesterday and today mark the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Massacre. Here's a list of great reads about this awful event. John Marshall Law School is offering this fasci...
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Introduction to Failure to Function Refusals
One of the core tenets of trademark law is that trademarks must serve as a source indicator, distinguishing the goods and services from those of other sources. When a tra...
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Failure to Function: Ornamental Refusals
Ornamental refusals are on the rise—with the USPTO issuing upwards of 50 ornamental refusals on a single day. The refusal stems from the inherent nature of the mark its...
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Failure to Function – Informational Matters, Widely Used Messages, and Religious Text
If an applied-for mark mostly or exclusively conveys information about a product or service, the mark is considered merely informational matter and will be refused based ...
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