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Trademarks Making Headlines
Trademark news often crosses over from legal publications to mainstream media when trademarks involve famous celebrities, well-known brands, and otherwise funny or amusin...
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Alt Legal Connect Session Summary: Filing Trademarks with an Eye Towards Litigation
On Wednesday, October 28, Caroline Fox, of CJ Fox Law, presented the session, “Filing Trademarks with an Eye Towards Litigation.” During this session, Caroline discus...
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Alt Legal Connect Session Summary: What You Need to Know about the USPTO’s Post-Registration Audit Program
On Wednesday, October 28, Allison Ricketts, Partner at Fross Zelnick Lehrman & Zissu, presented the session, “What You Need to Know about the USPTO’s Post-Registr...
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Alt Legal Connect Session Summary: “A Thorough Examination: An Interview with a Recent Trademark Examiner”
On Tuesday, October 27, Dorna Mohaghegh of Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz interviewed Courtney Alvarez, who was a USPTO trademark examiner for over a decade before rec...
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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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