Trademark owners must make periodic filings to keep their trademark registrations alive. These are post-registration maintenance filings, and failure to make them correctly will result in the issuance of a post-registration office action and then potentially the cancellation of a…
About two months ago, the Trademark Office announced entities would have to begin disclosing their personal email addresses in trademark applications and trademark registrations. I joined almost 200 trademark attorneys in protest of this rule. We argued that it would…
Trademark registration may be available to marks used on software in beta testing. A number of factors affect this determination.
Jordon Trapnell guest writes: Trademark law states that any mark that is predominantly a last name cannot be registered as a federal trademark on the Principal Register. The law identifies such a name as “primarily merely” a surname, meaning the…