Intellectual Property Protection, Intellectual Property Litigation, Fraud

Toss it in the Trash, Part 2: Recognizing and Combating Trademark Scams

Holland & Knight LLP on 6/30/2025

Holland & Knight's Intellectual Property Group has previously reported about scams being emailed to clients claiming that if the client does not immediately act, someone else may take control of their trademark. This is one...more

Hoisting Scammers with Their Own Petard with the UDRP

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 10/28/2024

With the widespread availability of domain registration and hosting services and the advent of low-cost generative artificial intelligence (“AI”) software, the creation of fraudulent websites has never been easier—or more...more

Voice to be a New Property Right of Musical Artists to Protect Against Unauthorized “Soundalikes”

ArentFox Schiff on 1/12/2024

Proposed bills at the federal and state level were announced January 10, both intended to protect recording artists and the music industry from unauthorized “soundalike” vocals created using artificial intelligence (AI)...more

False Declaration of Incontestability Not Enough to Cancel US Trademark Registration

Ladas & Parry LLP on 12/20/2023

Great Concepts has owned Registration No. 2929764 for DANTANNA’S, in association with “steak and seafood restaurant[s]”, since March 2005. In 2006 Chutter Inc’s predecessor-in-interest, Dan Tana, petitioned to cancel the mark...more

Federal Circuit Overturns Fifty Years of TTAB Precedent

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 11/9/2023

The Federal Circuit recently released an eye-catching opinion in Great Concepts, LLC v. Chutter, Inc., — F. 4th –, Case No. 2022-1212, 2023 WL 6854647 (Fed. Cir. Oct. 18, 2023). The panel of three judges held, in a...more

HouseCanary Weighs a Bird in Hand… Collect on a $210,000,000 Judgment or Retry the Entire Case

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 9/8/2020

Real estate startup HouseCanary made headlines when it secured a $700 million judgment against Title Source, Inc., now known as Amrock, in a trade secrets misappropriation case. In short, HouseCanary claimed that Amrock...more

Courts Across the Country Continue to Address Trade Secrets Issues

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 6/12/2020

The “return to normal” in courts across the country has brought with it a flurry of trade secrets decisions that address some interesting and instructive issues, both procedurally and substantively....more

Popular Insulated Cup Manufacturer In Hot Water Over Alleged Trade Secret Misappropriation

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 3/8/2018

Tervis Tumbler Company, the maker of the infamous insulated tumblers, has found itself in hot water with a former supplier, Trinity Graphic. ...more

Dietary Supplement & Cosmetics Legal Bulletin | October 2017

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. on 10/26/2017

The use of beauty products is “an understudied source of environmental chemical exposures” with a disparate effect on women of color, George Washington University and Occidental College researchers argue. Ami R. Zota, et al.,...more

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