Notice: Trade marks and designs: hearing diaries
Details of all scheduled trade mark (unless otherwise specified) procedural hearings, main hearings and appeals to the appointed person.
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Details of all scheduled trade mark (unless otherwise specified) procedural hearings, main hearings and appeals to the appointed person.
The manual of trade marks practice sets out guidance on the Intellectual Property Office work practices.
Ordinarily, trademark protection is strongest in relation to the identical or similar goods or services for which a mark is registered. Some marks, however, acquire such a strong r...
Four opinions issued by the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board this year show that names are only registrable as trademarks when they point to the applicant and to nobody else, says...
The Delhi High Court’s ZARA v. ZORA ruling settles one question while leaving another lurking beneath it. A formal declaration, the Court holds, is not necessary to invoke Section...
The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board has ruled for the first time that tribal sovereign immunity cannot block challenges to federal trademark registrations, rejecting Sycuan Tribal...
Following the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board's recent holding in Philip Morris v. IP Services International that tribal sovereign immunity does not bar trademark cancellation pro...
Use this form to request to restore a trade mark within 6 months of the date that it was removed from the register.
RiseandShine Corp. urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to reject what it called the Second Circuit's outlier rule allowing judges to decide the strength of a trademark, arguing...
The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board's recent decision in Nike v. Blue Ribbon Team illustrates how the Lanham Act's requirement for bona fide intent works in practice, and provides...
Beating the Monday blues after a long weekend, here we are with the first Weekly Review of October, featuring a post on Section 124, case summaries of orders passed by different Hi...
Bright Hand LLC v. Shenzhen Aoya Kuajing Dianzi Shangwu Youxiangongsi d/b/a Mylivell, No. 1:25-cv-11700, (N.D. Ill. May 26, 2026) (Coleman, J.). Judge Coleman, in this patent infri...
A former associate at a personal injury and medical malpractice law firm can't register in her own name a trademark for birth-injury legal services that she helped develop before a...
The interplay between trademark infringement proceedings and non-use cancellation proceedings under Sections 47 and 124 of the Trade Marks Act, 1999 raises a deceptively simple que...
By Ben Lobel on Small Business UK - Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs Helene Whelbourn and Alastair Rawlence of intellectual property specialist NOVAGRAAF provide t...
Registering your trademark isn’t the finish line. Here’s what you have to do afterward, correct use, policing for conflicts, and USPTO maintenance deadlines, to keep it enforceable...
Publication date 2 September 2026.
Includes chapters on definition of a design, novelty and individual character, technical function, morality and emblems.
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An Italian winery has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to restore a trademark infringement ruling it won in New York federal court that was later overturned by the Second Circuit, sayi...
Publication date 30 September 2026.
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