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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

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

Trademark Licensee Retains Rights Post-Rejection

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The Bottom Line - The Bankruptcy Court for the District of Connecticut in In re Sima Int’l, Inc., Case No. 17-21761, 2018 WL 2293705 (Bankr. D. Conn. May 17, 2018), recently held that rejection of a license agreement did...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Franchisor Bankruptcy Case Dismissed as a Bad Faith Filing

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The United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware recently issued an opinion discussing the tension between using bankruptcy as a legitimate tool to maximize value versus using bankruptcy merely as a litigation...more

Kilpatrick

Mission Product Holdings Inc v Tempnology LLC First Circuit on a Mission Reverses Bankruptcy Appellate Panel

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Anyone who practices bankruptcy or intellectual property law and follows the intersection of the two knows Congress responded to the Fourth Circuit’s ruling in Lubrizol by enacting 11 U.S.C. § 365(n) (“Section 365(n)”)....more

Cooley LLP

Blog: Throwing Shade At Sunbeam: Following Lubrizol And Not The Seventh Circuit, The First Circuit Leaves Another Trademark...

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The Tempnology Trademark Saga. When it comes to decisions on bankruptcy and trademark licenses, the In re Tempnology LLC bankruptcy case is the gift that keeps on giving. The Original. It all started in November 2015....more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Bankruptcy Dispute Regarding “Coolcore” Trademark Heats Up in the First Circuit

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In December 2015, the TMCA blogged about a decision in In re Tempnology, LLC, in which the Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Hampshire held that a debtor’s rejection of a licensing agreement in bankruptcy terminated...more

Sullivan & Worcester

Mission Accomplished … First Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel Acknowledges Post-Rejection Rights of Licensee of Trademarks

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The Bankruptcy Appellate Panel (“BAP”) for the First Circuit recently upheld a licensee’s rights to use a debtor’s trademarks and logo after a rejection by the debtor of the underlying licensing and distribution agreement....more

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