On March 3rd, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Virginia upheld a ruling that cheese labeled GRUYERE can be used to legally describe cheese made from outside the Gruyere region of Switzerland and France.  It said...

Brazil has joined the Hague system by depositing the instrument of accession of the 1999 Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement on February 13, 2023. This agreement will enter into force in Brazil on August 1, 2023. ...

Starting on April 18th, 2023 the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will begin moving away from paper patent grants and moving towards issuing electronic patent grants (eGrants).  Ceremonial paper versions of patent grants will be...

An article by John Richards about the Unified Patent Agreement, which goes into effect on June 1, 2023, is now available in the Education Center of the Ladas.com...

The article: “IP in Business Transactions: United States Overview” has been recently updated by Lanning Bryer and published on the Thompson Reuters Practical Law website in their IP global guide on U.S. Business Transactions....

An article by Ladas & Parry attorneys Dennis Prahl and Jerry Jakubovic about the trade dress case of SoClean, Inc., v. Sunset Healthcare Solutions, Inc., that was recently published in the World Trademark Review (WTR), is now available in the...