By C. Ryan Barber | September 7, 2017
Bacardi has taken new legal action in its long-running rum war with Cuba, this time against banking regulators in a hunt for information about how an entity owned by the island nation last year received a U.S. license to renew the disputed "Havana Club" trademark.
By Commentary by Scott J. Slavick | September 5, 2017
On June 6, in a precedential decision in In re University of Miami, Serial No. 8661638, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board reversed two U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) refusals to register a design mark depicting the mascot of the University of Miami Hurricanes—Sebastian the Ibis—for various paper products, clothing, and educational and entertainment services, writes Scott J. Slavick.
By Commentary by David Friedland | August 31, 2017
While the court system requires parties to engage in ADR as a way of reducing overcrowded court dockets, parties (and their counsel) can use ADR, and mediation in particular, to their benefit in numerous ways and at various times over the course of an intellectual property dispute, writes attorney David Friedland.
By JENNIFER LECLAIRE | August 31, 2017
MIAMI—Ocean Walk Apartments, a 297-unit multifamily community in Key West, FL, has traded hands. The sale price: $101.5 million. Passco Companies acquired the multifamily asset. The deal marks the largest single-asset transaction in the firm's history
By Samantha Joseph | August 29, 2017
Real estate professionals must operate under a new legal precedent when marketing private units in properties where branded hotels also operate.
By Celia Ampel | August 29, 2017
World Patent Marketing allegedly duped potential entrepreneurs by touting nonexistent services and business relationships.
By Commentary by Morgan Ben-David | August 17, 2017
Trade dress not only pertains to a product's image, size, shape, color or texture, but also has been expanded to encompass the interior and exterior décor, signage, menu and general "atmosphere" of a restaurant or store. Like a traditional trademark, a company's trade dress is similarly protected by the Lanham Act, writes Morgan Ben-David.
By SCOTT GRAHAM | July 28, 2017
Beyonce and Jay-Z are never far from the headlines. This summer they've been making legal news by applying to trademark the names of their newborn twins, Sir Carter and Rumi Carter.
By Commentary by Jaime Rich Vining | July 27, 2017
Globalization has significantly affected trademark portfolio practice in recent years. U.S.-based companies now sell and promote their products or services online throughout much of the world via online commerce and social media. Trademark owners must therefore now secure registration in many more countries to ensure their brands are adequately protected in all countries in which they exploit or are likely to exploit their marks, writes Jaime Rich Vining.
By SCOTT GRAHAM | July 13, 2017
Persuading a panel of appellate judges that a monkey can hold a copyright is a tough sell.And the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit didn't seem to like the “monkey selfie” copyright case any more than Judge William Orrick III did. Not from the sound of Wednesday's oral argument in Naruto v. Slater.
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