A recent ruling has resulted in an immediate change in the address for service requirements for inter partes matters in the United Kingdom, which will mostly affect such proceedings involving UK designations of international trademarks filed under...
Read ArticleIn SoClean Inc v Sunset Healthcare Solutions Inc (Case No 21-2311, 9 November 2022), the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a ruling enjoining defendant Sunset from marketing a particular configuration of medical device filters...
Read ArticleBackground On December 18, 2021, the final rule implementing the Trademark Modernization Act of 2020 (TMA) went into effect, resulting in one of the most significant amendments to the rules of practice in trademark cases in decades. The TMA...
Read ArticleIn Moran, personal representative of the estate of Frankie Edith Kerouac Parker v Edie Parker LLC (Case No 20-cv-12717 (ED Mich), 27 September 2021), the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan addressed the question of whether a...
Read ArticleThe eagerly anticipated decision of the European Court of Justice in the case of Sky v. SkyKick was delivered on January 29, 2020. The Court’s decision came as a relief to trademark owners after the Advocate General’s opinion was followed in...
Read ArticleOn April 23, 2019, the following amendments to the Trademark Law of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) were approved that should significantly help trademark owners defend their rights: Trademark applications filed in bad faith without an...
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