Among the things that are the most exciting about being an intellectual property practitioner working in the hospitality industry are the variety and wide breadth of legal issues that need to be addressed. We are confident, however, that “exciting” is not the first word that most hospitality owners, operators, and other industry participants would choose to describe hospitality industry legal challenges, and we would understand and sympathize if they would choose words more of the four-letter variety. In this issue of NGE IP Focus, we highlight some recent legal decisions at the crossroads of intellectual property law and the hospitality industry that illustrate that breadth of legal issues and considerations.