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When Bankruptcy Meets Intellectual Property: What Every IP Holder Should Know

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Bankruptcy can disrupt even the most carefully structured business relationships, and if your company holds, licenses, or depends on intellectual property, the stakes are especially high. Understanding how bankruptcy law...more

Clark Hill PLC

What Happens if Your Trademark Licensor Files for Bankruptcy?

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In the consumer brands industry, licensing makes the world go round. Licensing is critical in the consumer brand industry because many businesses make a large portion of their revenue from licensing their trademarked brands...more

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Some Going Concerns: A Primer On Intellectual Property Issues In Bankruptcy For Licensors And Licensees

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Much has been written on the myriad of legal issues emanating from the global COVID-19 pandemic: the constitutionality of the lockdowns, liability for stores that open, the process of obtaining PPP loans, and the...more

Jones Day

The U.S. Supreme Court Rules That Rejection of a Trademark License Agreement in Bankruptcy Does Not Strip the Licensee of Its...

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In Mission Product Holdings, Inc. v. Tempnology, LLC, 139 S. Ct. 652, 2019 WL 2166392 (U.S. May 20, 2019), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the rejection in bankruptcy of a trademark license agreement, which constitutes a...more

Harris Beach Murtha PLLC

Supreme Court Brings Protections to Licensees of Trademarks

The United States Supreme Court has rendered a decision that represents a victory for licensees of trademarks throughout the country when faced with a bankrupt licensor....more

Mintz - Intellectual Property Viewpoints

U.S. Supreme Court Adopts Rule Protecting a Trademark Licensee’s Ability to Use a Trademark after a Bankrupt Licensor’s Rejection...

This past May, in a highly-anticipated decision, the Supreme Court held in Mission Product Holdings, Inc. v. Tempnology, LLC that a debtor’s rejection of an executory contract under Section 365 of the Bankruptcy Code has the...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Preserving and Protecting Value Following the Recent Supreme Court Decision Shifting the Landscape on Intellectual Property...

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In May 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court decided the Mission Product Holdings, Inc. v. Tempnology, LLC case. The Mission Products Holdings decision provides a reminder to intellectual property license parties that periodic review...more

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When bankruptcy law and trademark licensing intersect - The Supreme Court’s decision in Mission Product Holdings Inc. v....

On May 20, 2019, the US Supreme Court clarified that when a trademark licensor rejects a trademark license agreement in a Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding, the rejection does not rescind the use rights of the licensee under...more

Holland & Knight LLP

First Circuit: Trademark Licensee Doesn't Retain Rights After Rejection by Bankrupt Licensor - Court's Decision Causes Circuit...

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• Considered without reference to a corresponding definition, Section 365(n) of the Bankruptcy Code seems clear. If the trustee or debtor-in-possession, as licensor, rejects an executory intellectual property license, the...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Rejecting Trademarks and Exclusive Distribution Rights in Bankruptcy

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The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit concluded that a debtor in bankruptcy is entitled to reject grants of trademark licenses and exclusive distribution rights. Although Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code protects a...more

Lowndes

Treatment of IP Licenses in Bankruptcy

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As intellectual property becomes a more important part of commerce, the question of how IP licenses are treated in bankruptcy is of more interest to companies negotiating such licenses....more

Mintz - Bankruptcy & Restructuring Viewpoints

The First Circuit Casts a Shadow on Sunbeam

In the recently decided case, Mission Product Holdings, Inc. v. Tempnology, LLC, the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit took a hardline position that trademark license rights are not protected in bankruptcy....more

Fish & Richardson

Sunbeams Don’t Shine on Trademark Licensees in First Circuit

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Every article, blog post, book chapter or court decision this blogger has ever read about Section 365(n) of the Bankruptcy Code and the treatment of trademark licenses thereunder has always been either dizzyingly abstruse,...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Trademark Licenses . . . Again

A long-running issue concerning the treatment of trademark licenses in bankruptcy has seen a new milestone with the January 12 decision of the First Circuit in Mission Product Holdings, Inc. v. Tempnology, LLC. The issue was...more

Kilpatrick

4 Top Takeaways: Recent Trends Involving Intellectual Property in Bankruptcy

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Kilpatrick Townsend partner David Posner spoke at a recent New York State Bar Association event where he and other panelists discussed the topic “Around the Edges of IP: Complexities of IP in Bankruptcy.” Mr. Posner...more

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First Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel Recognizes Rights of Trademark Licensees in Bankruptcy

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The First Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel recently issued a decision recognizing the rights of trademark licensees when the trademark’s owner files for bankruptcy. In Mission Product Holdings, Inc. v. Tempnology...more

Cooley LLP

Blog: A Reminder Of The Limits Of Section 365(n)’s Licensee Protection

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A decision last month by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Hampshire serves as a good reminder that, although helpful, Bankruptcy Code Section 365(n)’s protection for intellectual property licensees definitely...more

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