Today, the Supreme Court held in Fourth Estate Public Benefit Corp. v. Wall-Sreet.com, LLC et al., that before a party can file suit for copyright infringement, the copyright must be registered with the U.S. Copyright Office. Absent statutory...

The World Trademark Review described Ladas & Parry as being known to fortune 500 companies, small and midsized companies as well as multinational organizations as having “superior trademark service” and that these companies use Ladas because...

On January 22, 2019, SCOTUS held In Helsinn Healthcare S.A. v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc, that a prior public sale of a patented product could destroy the novelty of a patent for that product even though there was no disclosure of the inventive...

The U.S. Supreme Court decided today to hear the case of Iancu v. Brunetti regarding the possibility that the Lanham Act violates a fashion designer’s freedom of speech in preventing him from registering the trademark for the term...

Ladas & Parry is pleased to announce that Janet Cord has once again been appointed to serve as Vice Chair of the International Patent Law & Trade Committee of the Intellectual Property Owners Organization (IPO) for...

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has released an announcement (https://www.uspto.gov/uspto-operating-status) regarding its operational status if parts of the government have a lapse in funding. Should this happen, the USPTO has...