In a trademark opposition or cancellation at the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB), one of the elements of the first stages of the proceeding is “initial disclosures” from the parties. What are initial disclosures?They are sort of a road map for the discovery each...
Read MoreA notice published this week, as well as a blog post by Victoria Espinel, the administration’s Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator, requests public comments regarding the administrations strategy for intellectual property enforcement. Specifically, the White House seeks comment regarding (i) overall strategy regarding the U.S. government’s IP...
Read MoreLast week, U.S. Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator Victoria Espinel released the 2012 U.S. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ENFORCEMENT COORDINATOR JOINT STRATEGIC PLAN. Like previous reports, It touts lots of efforts and initiatives regarding counterfeiting and intellectual property violations. IP enforcement actions and investigations by homeland security, the FBI, and other law...
Read MoreWatching the U.S. Open golf championship last weekend, I got to thinking: is “Arnold Palmer” generic for beverage that is half iced tea, half lemonade? I don’t know. I have hear many people order “Arnold Palmers” in restaurants and the servers know just what they...
Read MoreLast week the list of applications for creation of new .ANYTHING generic top-level domain names -gTLDs – was made public. The full list of the ICAAN “reveal day” list of 1,930 new applicants for gTLDs is here. Many of the top global brands – especially tech and...
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