Under the new Chinese trademark law that went into effect on May 1, 2014, multi-class applications may now be filed, registrations obtained in bad faith may be challenged, and a new likelihood of confusion standard was...

Christian Louboutin, the designer whose shoes have graced the feet of many fashion-forward women, won the latest round in the fight over the exclusive right to use red soles for women’s...

In Bilski v. Kappos, the Court reiterated that abstract ideas are not patent eligible, gave little guidance as to what it meant by “abstract idea” other than that the Court was concerned about claims that were too broad and referred us to its...

The European Court of Justice (ECJ), Europe’s highest court, has upheld the decisions of the Grand Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonization of the Internal Market (OHIM) and the European Union General Court canceling the Community Trademark...

The long-awaited decision of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) in the case of In re Bilski was handed down on October 30,...

In March 2009, we reported that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit had issued a decision in the case of Tafas v. Doll (formerly, Tafas v. Dudas). Subsequent to that decision, the Federal Circuit granted a rehearing en banc, and...