As an update of my report from last month on the circuit split on the issue of the recovery of the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s attorneys’ fees in connection with district court review of denials of trademark and patent applications, the PTO Director filed a petition for certiorari...
Trademark and patent applicants and practitioners have grown used to (and weary of) ever-increasing Patent and Trademark Office [PTO] fees, particularly since Congress mandated that the PTO’s operations be self-funded. But, even the most cynical PTO practitioner might be surprised at the ingenuity of the PTO Director’s latest revenue generating...
RPJ Partner Deena R. Merlen is hosting an International Trademark Association (INTA) North America Roundtable in Stamford, CT, on April 13 on trademark due diligence and trademark transactions. IP due diligence, as an important part of overall mergers and acquisitions (M&A) due diligence, is the process of gathering information and...
Intellectual Property Update: Federal Court Allows Registration of “Scandalous” “FUCT” Trademark Following the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling last year that the Lanham Act’s statutory bar to registration of “disparaging” trademarks ran afoul of the First Amendment, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit struck down a companion...