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First Circuit: Lizzie Borden Themed Coffee Shop Serves Different Goods to Different Consumers from Guests at Lizzie Borden Bed and Breakfast
How many years must pass before a grisly murder can support a marketing effort? Apparently, something less than the 132 years since Lizzie Borden’s father and stepmother were axe murdered in Fall River, Massachusetts. (Yes, the passive voice is intentional—a jury acquitted prime suspect Lizzie, and the murders remain unsolved.)
Fall River is city…
Overview of the 2025 USPTO Trademark Fee Changes Starting January 18, 2025
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has announced significant changes to trademark filing fees, which will take effect on January 18, 2025. The changes impact both new applications and post-registration maintenance fees, as well as several specific fees related to petitions, protests, and statements of use, and includes new fees related to insufficient application…
Get Ready: USPTO Trademark Fees Increase January 18, 2025
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) recently issued a final rule adjusting certain trademark fees for United States trademark applications and registrations. Most aspects of the rule go into effect January 18, 2025, so practitioners and rights holders should be ready for the change and plan ahead to avoid unnecessary costs if possible.…
Top Copyright Cases of 2024
Warner Chappell Music Inc. v. Nealy
The Copyright Act imposes a three-year period of limitations for copyright infringement claims. There has been a split in the circuits about whether this means that damages could be claimed only for infringement occurring during the three-year period or whether damages could be recovered for earlier acts of infringement…
A SUPER HERO-ic Trademark Takedown
“Enjoy your reign while you may, Superman. For surely as night follows day, there comes a time when even gods must die.”
– Lex Luthor, Superman: Doomsday
Last month, the creators of beloved characters like “Superman” and “Spider-Man” declined to come to their own rescue when their SUPER HERO and SUPER HEROES registrations…
A Vegetarian’s Thanksgiving: How a Patent and a Restriction Requirement Highlight Inclusivity
Thanksgiving is a time for family, gratitude, and—let’s be honest—lots of food. But for vegetarians, it can feel more like a minefield of side dishes. While others enjoy the turkey, vegetarians are often left piecing together a meal that usually consists of mashed potatoes, stuffing, sweet potatoes, mac and cheese, cranberry sauce, and salad. The…
New Trademark Fees Coming
The USPTO has announced that trademark fees in the United States will be undergoing significant increases on January 18, 2025. Here is a summary of the changes.
Application Fees
You will no longer enjoy a discounted fee for filing a TEAS-Plus application instead of a TEAS-Standard application. All applications. other than applications filed under the…
Get Your Wallets Ready – The Price of Patents Are Going Up!
Attention, inventors, in-house counsel, and anyone with a vested interest in the world of intellectual property: the USPTO just issued its final rule for patent fees. This is a follow-up to the 2023 proposal—but with a slightly softer landing.
Starting January 19, 2025, the cost of securing those all-important patent rights is going up—because…
Recent Examination Manual Update Includes Guidance on Protection of Computer-Generated Designs
The Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (“MPEP”) is the examination manual used internally at the United States Patent & Trademark Office (“USPTO”) to guide examiners in the process of examining patent applications. In practice, patent applicants frequently rely on the contents of the MPEP during patent prosecution to guide their arguments and hold examiners accountable…