Trademark Infringement, Trademark Ownership, Abandonment

Maintaining and Protecting Your Trademark Rights After Registration

Jaburg Wilk on 8/13/2025

Securing a federal trademark registration is a major milestone—but it is not the end of the journey. To keep your rights strong and enforceable, you need to maintain the registration and actively protect the mark in the...more

MarkIt to Market® - August 2023: How to Lose a Mark in 3 Ways – Part 3: Naked Licensing

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C. on 9/1/2023

Trademarks help brand owners build and communicate their brand’s reputation and value with the relevant public. Once that valuable goodwill is linked between a mark and the owner’s products and services, trademark owners can...more

MarkIt to Market® - August 2023

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C. on 9/1/2023

Thank you for reading the August 2023 issue of Sterne Kessler's MarkIt to Market® newsletter. This month, we conclude our series that explores ways to lose trademark rights with an examination of naked licensing, discuss a...more

MarkIt to Market® - June 2023

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C. on 6/30/2023

Thank you for reading the June 2023 issue of Sterne Kessler's MarkIt to Market® newsletter. This month, we begin a three-part series that closely examines ways to lose trademark rights; share an article that examines the...more

Trademark Abandonment: Lessons from The Real USFL v. Fox Sports

Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL on 8/25/2022

Under the Lanham Act, a trademark is considered abandoned “when its use has been discontinued with intent not to resume such use.” Three consecutive years of nonuse constitutes a prima facie showing of abandonment...more

Famous Trademark Not Abandoned After Original Owner’s Bankruptcy

Knobbe Martens on 6/16/2022

TIGER LILY VENTURES LTD. v. BARCLAYS CAPITAL INC. Before Lourie, Bryson, and Prost. Appeal from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. Summary: A trademark associated with a...more