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Maintaining and Protecting Your Trademark Rights After Registration

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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

Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL

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

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

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Year-end Round-up: Notable Trademark Case Law From 2018

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There were many interesting trademark cases coming out of 2018, a few of which are discussed below. The scope of Canada’s anti-dilution remedy (section 22 of the Trademarks Act) is not limited to a defendant’s use of a...more

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The Five Year Divide: Limited Recourse to Cancel Registrations, Even Those Void Ab Initio

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The Sixth Circuit recently issued an opinion in NetJets Inc. v. IntelliJet Group, LLC Inc. (unpublished), holding that where a trademark registration is incontestable, it may not be cancelled on the ground that it was void ab...more

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