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Trademark Incontestability and Fraud on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office: The Federal Circuit Clarifies One Issue but Leaves...

In Great Concepts Management Group v. Chutter, Inc., the Federal Circuit entertained an appeal from the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board’s cancellation of a federal registration based on the registrant’s filing of an...more

5 Key Takeaways - Petitions for Expungement or Reexamination and Other Aspects of the Trademark Modernization Act

Kilpatrick Townsend’s Ted Davis recently spoke at the Federal Bar Association’s IP Law Fall Conference 2022 on the topic of “Petitions for Expungement or Reexamination and Other Aspects of the Trademark Modernization Act.”...more

5 Key Takeaways | Combating Misrepresentations in Trademark Prosecution and Maintenance [Video]

Kilpatrick Townsend Partner Ted Davis recently spoke at the New York Intellectual Property Association. He discussed "Combatting Misrepresentations in the Trademark Prosecution and Maintenance" during the Hot Topics in...more

5 Key Takeaways - Combating Misrepresentations in Trademark Prosecution and Maintenance: The Trademark Modernization Act and...

Kilpatrick Townsend’s Ted Davis and Rita Weeks recently presented on the topic of “Combating Misrepresentations in Trademark Prosecution and Maintenance: The Trademark Modernization Act and Beyond.” The Trademark...more

[Webinar] Combatting Misrepresentations in Trademark Prosecution and Maintenance: The Trademark Modernization Act and Beyond -...

The Trademark Modernization Act, many aspects of which went into effect December 27, 2021, implemented numerous changes to United States trademark practice, including codification of letters of protest, changes to the...more

Changes to Federal Trademark Law and Their Effective Dates Under the Trademark Modernization Act and its Implementing Regulations

I. Introduction - On December 27, 2020, the Trademark Modernization Act of 2020 (“TMA”) became law after it passed Congress and was signed by the President as part of the year-end Consolidated Appropriations Act for 2021....more

4 Key Takeaways - Trademark Modernization Act of 2020

Kilpatrick Townsend partner Ted Davis and senior counsel Chris Bussert recently presented an audio seminar for West/Thomson Reuters. The title of the seminar was The Trademark Modernization Act of 2020: What Practitioners...more

Trademark Modernization Act Becomes Law: Establishes New Procedures to Remove Deadwood Registrations, Restores Presumption of...

Introduction - On December 27, 2020, the Trademark Modernization Act of 2020 (“TMA”) became law after it passed Congress and was signed by the President as part of the year-end Consolidated Appropriations Act for 2021.1 The...more

5 Key Takeaways - Review of U.S. Federal Case Law and TTAB Developments

At the recent INTA 2020 Annual Meeting, Kilpatrick Townsend’s Ted Davis delivered an analysis of major decisions rendered by the U.S. courts and the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) over the past 12 months. Key...more

Strategies for Cultivating Protectable Rights in, and Registering, Generic.com Marks After United States Patent and Trademark...

On June 30, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the potential registrability in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (“PTO”) of a claimed trademark or service mark consisting of a generic word and a generic top-level domain...more

5 Key Takeaways - Annual Review of Key Trademark & Unfair Competition Opinions

Kilpatrick Townsend partner Ted Davis recently presented his “Annual Review of Key Trademark & Unfair Competition Opinions” at the firm’s 2019 Advanced Trademark Law Seminar in San Francisco. Key takeaways from the...more

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Announces New Rule Requiring Foreign Trademark Claimants to Obtain U.S. Counsel

The USPTO has announced a new rule, effective August 3, 2019, which will require all trademark applicants, registrants, and parties to a Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Proceeding (collectively “claimants”) who are not...more

KTIPS Takeaways - Trademark Prosecution & Case Law Updates

At the 2019 Atlanta Kilpatrick Townsend Intellectual Property Seminar (KTIPS), Ted Davis and co-presenter Maria Baratta discussed recent trademark prosecution and case law updates. ...more

Immoral and Scandalous Trademarks

On January 4, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court granted a petition for certiorari filed by the U.S. Patent and Trademark office in Iancu v. Brunetti. The USPTO seeks to overturn the Federal Circuit’s ruling that the prohibition on...more

Supreme Court Holds a Portion of Section 2(a) of the Lanham Act Unconstitutional

In Matal v. Tam, the Supreme Court held that a portion of Section 2(a) of the Lanham Act prohibiting the federal registration of potentially disparaging trademarks and service marks violated the Free Speech Clause of the...more

Is Discovery That Section 8 Affidavits Were Not Filed By The Owner Of The Registration Grounds For Cancellation? N.D.Cal Rules...

CASE SUMMARY - Every trademark lawyer knows that between the fifth and sixth year after registration the trademark owner must file an affidavit of use. If the mark has been in continuous use, the owner may also file an...more

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