The Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has notified the Trademark Public Advisory Committee (TPAC) of the USPTO's intent to restructure existing trademark fees and released its preliminary trademark fee...more
In the face of the ever-growing threat of cyberattacks disguised in emails from phishers, impostors and other increasingly sophisticated security scammers, Google has launched a tool to allow organizations to fight back by...more
An en banc panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has held that the Lanham Act's prohibition against federal registration of "disparaging" trademarks violates the constitutional right to free speech...more
A three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held on Sept. 14, 2015, that a copyright owner must consider whether a third party's online use of copyrighted content constitutes fair use before...more
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