Trademark Infringement Litigation: Protecting Your Brand

In today’s competitive business landscape, your brand is one of your most valuable assets. Protecting it through trademark infringement litigation

Trademark Use in Commerce

In the United States, subject to one exception, trademark rights arise from use in commerce, regardless of whether or not

Reexamination of Patents After a patent is issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the discovery of

The Copyright Act defines a “collective work” as an assemblage into a collective whole of a number of individual contributions,

In “passing off,” a seller associates another party’s mark with a good or service. The law of passing off concerns

Under the Patent Act, a patent may be obtained for “any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of

A generic name is the common descriptive name of the product a trademark identifies. Generic names may not be protected

The copyright law of the United States provides for copyright protection in “musical works,” including any accompanying words, which are

Trademark law seeks to proactively prevent consumer confusion; thus it does not require proof of actual consumer confusion in order

The legal basis for protecting trademarks derives from a combination of state common law and federal statutory law. Actual use