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Intellectual Property Protection Trademarks International Trade

Smart & Biggar

CIPO announces end to accelerated trademark examination, upcoming changes to pre-approved terms, and anticipated nine-month wait...

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On July 16, 2025, the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) announced new practices related to trademark examination and the acceptance of recommendations for pre-approved goods and services....more

Jenner & Block

Two Years After Abitron: Navigating the Limits of US Trademark Enforcement Abroad

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Two years after the US Supreme Court’s decision in Abitron Austria GmbH v. Hetronic International, Inc., US trademark owners and global businesses continue to grapple with its implications for cross-border enforcement. The...more

Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery LLP

USPTO Adopts Partial Trademark Replacement Rule to Align with Madrid Protocol

Effective July 2, 2025, the USPTO will accept requests for both full and partial replacement of earlier national trademark registrations with international registrations. Previously, the USPTO only permitted trademark holders...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

News From Across the Pond: UK+ Regime Now Permanent

In 2021, shortly after Brexit became effective, the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) established the “UK+ regime” on the exhaustion of intellectual property (IP) rights with regard to the European Economic Area (EEA)....more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

In Limited Cases, Foreign Trademarks Can Affect U.S. Registration Rights

It is a basic tenet of trademark law that rights are jurisdictional. Trademark owners only have rights in the mark in the jurisdictions in which they have registered (or, in some cases, used) the mark....more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

U.S. Trade Representative Releases 2025 Special 301 Report

On April 29th, Ambassador Jamieson Greer, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), issued the 2025 Special 301 Report.  In a press release (being quite different in tone from many over the past decade), the USTR stated that "[o]ur...more

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