Social Media Ideas for Trademarks And Trademark Law

The importance of genuine use of a registered trademark to preserve its value

Registering a trademark is one of the most important steps in protecting the identity of a business, product, or service against third parties. However, obtaining a trademark regis...

Trademark Protection for Farms, Food Businesses, and Agricultural Brands

Trademark Protection for Farms, Food Businesses, and Agricultural Brands should be considered before a business invests heavily in packaging, signs, websites, merchandise, or adver...

Trademark registration with or without a logo? Is protection stronger in the European Union vs Spain?

Registering a trademark is not merely an administrative formality: it is a strategic decision that shapes the legal protection of your business in the medium and long term. One of...

Trademark Law Is Not a Drag

A Lapsed Trademark Registration Doesn’t Always Mean the Brand is Up for Grabs

Trademark Law As A Tool To Bolster NIL Rights Against AI

The meteoric rise of artificial intelligence-generated deepfakes is prompting high-profile celebrities to protect their name, image and likeness rights using federal trademark law...

Rise and Shine: SCOTUS Wakes Up to a Trademark Fight

Can You Trademark a Logo Made with AI? What Business Owners Need to Know

Different AI design tools have wildly different rules about trademark registration. Canva explicitly prohibits it. Midjourney has a revenue threshold. Adobe Firefly offers IP indem...

Beyond the Logo: 7-Eleven v. Nike and the New Frontier of Brand Identity

Trademark law has traditionally protected the most recognizable aspects of a brand: names, logos, and slogans. Increasingly, however, companies are asking courts to protect somethi...

Trademark Fight Erupts Over 'The Star' in Washington Media Market

House Marks without a Doctrine: The Unsettled Law Behind Flipkart vs. Marc

The Supreme Court’s refusal to stay the injunction in Flipkart v. Marc has brought an overlooked trademark question back into focus: can a well-known corporate or “house” brand red...

Buying/Selling Intellectual Property

An increasingly valuable asset for many businesses is its intellectual property. Intellectual property can include trade secrets, patents, trademarks, copyrights, codes, formulas,...

Supreme Court Takes Up Whether Trademark Strength Belongs to Judge or Jury

SCOTUS took RiseandShine v. PepsiCo to decide if trademark strength is fact or law, granting review over the Solicitor General's advice to deny. Continue reading this post on Paten...

The Biggest TM Rulings Of 2026: A Midyear Report

The Seventh Circuit placed limits on trademark plaintiffs in cases against foreign online sellers accused of counterfeiting, and the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board issued precede...

Bullseye- Luke Littler is Successful in Securing a Facial Trade Mark Registration

Translation of China’s 2026 Amended Trademark Law

Note: This translation will be replaced or updated once the National People’s Congress or the China National Intellectual Property Administration releases a translation. On June 26...

China’s Trademark Law Overhauled: Key Changes Taking Effect January 1, 2027

Trademark, Copyright, or Patent? Mapping the FinTech Intellectual Property Framework (Nanne Parmar)

Every founder eventually faces a critical legal roadblock: choosing between a Trademark, Copyright,...

The Wild, Wild West of Trademarks

The Patagonia–vs.–Pattie Gonia battle has entered uncharted territory.

Why Your Social Media Handle Isn’t a Trademark Registration and How to Fix It

You’ve spent years building an audience under your handle, but here’s the thing nobody tells you: that handle is not a trademark. It’s a license from the platform. And if someone e...

Investor Ares Defends Use Of 'Marq Logistics' TM

U.S. investment giant Ares has rejected claims it tried to profit from a London real estate business' success by using the "Marq Logistics" trademark, arguing that the U.K. company...

Cox, Hikma Rulings Set Stage For Trademark Liability Fights

After the U.S. Supreme Court narrowed paths to secondary liability in copyright and patent cases this term, trademark law stands apart with an older, potentially broader rule for w...

What the Pattie Gonia Trademark Infringement Lawsuit Can Teach Us About Current Enforcement Trends

"The cycles of really, really aggressive enforcement and suppression do tend to come and go, and we might be on an upswing," Harvard trademark professor Rebecca Tushnet told Law.co...

Protecting your trade mark abroad

To protect your trade mark outside of the UK, you usually need to apply in each country you want protection in.