The Dorsey Trademark, Copyright + Advertising team is back from the 2025 International Trademark Association Meeting. It was one for the books. We mixed and mingled with old and new colleagues and as well as our friends from...more
5/27/2025
/ Advertising ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
Celebrities ,
Copyright ,
Corporate Branding ,
Dispute Resolution ,
Greenwashing ,
Influencers ,
Intellectual Property Litigation ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
License Agreements ,
Mediation ,
Trademarks ,
USPTO
Having previously identified the COVID-19 outbreak as an “extraordinary situation” under 37 CFR 1.183, USPTO Director Andrei Iancu is exercising sua sponte authority to implement a COVID-19 prioritized examination pilot...more
USPTO Director Andrei Iancu has exercised temporary authority under the CARES Act to extend certain Patent and Trademark filing deadlines by thirty days due to the COVID-19 emergency. The extensions apply to selected Patent,...more
Shortly before Christmas 2017, Gibson Brands sued Funko, a maker of pop culture dolls, for trademark infringement relating to several of Funko’s figurines of famous musicians. Among the dolls named in the complaint are Slash...more
We recently provided some commentary on Gene Simmons and his application to register the “devil horns” rock and roll hand symbol. Well, you can now KISS that application goodbye, as Mr. Simmons has expressly abandoned his...more
On June 9, 2017, Gene Simmons of Kiss rock band fame applied with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“PTO”) to register the following mark for “Entertainment, namely, live performances by a musical artist;...more
Trademarks are not only words or logos, but can come in many other forms, including sounds. In the words of the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board in the case In re Gen. Electric Broad. Co., 199 USPQ 560, 563 (TTAB 1978),...more