Goods or Services, Corporate Counsel, Trademarks

Lack of Bona Fide Intent to Use Sends Alcohol Trademark Application Down the Drain

Fish & Richardson on 6/27/2025

In a recent precedential decision, the U.S. Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) upheld an opposition by Tequila Cuadra S. de RL de CV (“Tequila Cuadra”) and denied an application filed by Manufacturera de Botas Cuadra,...more

SkyKick v Sky: UK Supreme Court Confronts Bad Faith in Trade Mark Applications

Jones Day on 12/18/2024

The UK Supreme Court has issued a landmark judgment dealing with specific bad faith considerations for trade marks....more

Trademarks in 2020: Notable Canadian trademark cases and developments

Smart & Biggar on 1/26/2021

There were several notable trademark cases in Canada in 2020, including those addressing comparative advertising, depreciation of goodwill, brand parody, trademark ‘use’ in the absence of a brick-and-mortar location, and...more

EU Court Rules Cannabis Trademark Unregistrable as Contrary to Public Policy

Carlton Fields on 1/2/2020

The General Court of the European Union ruled on December 12 that the Cannabis Store Amsterdam logo was unregistrable as violative of public policy and morality because it would encourage illegal activity. This decision is...more

Navigating the Legalization of Hemp under the 2018 Farm Bill Involves Changes to the Issuance of Federal Trademarks in the...

Mintz - Intellectual Property Viewpoints on 6/12/2019

Legalizing “hemp” under the Agricultural Improvement Act of 2018 (2018 Farm Bill) has triggered an important change for the examination of federal trademark applications concerning cannabis and cannabis-derived goods and...more

Beware! A Trademark Trial and Appeals Board Decision Can Stop You in Your Tracks

Knobbe Martens on 1/30/2018

It has been a few years since the Supreme Court decision in the case B&B Hardware, Inc. v. Hargis Industries, Inc., and we are beginning to see the aftermath in the district courts. In B&B Hardware, the Supreme Court held...more