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A recent precedential decision from the U.S. Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) delivered a key reminder for companies expanding internationally: a foreign trademark filing can give you an earlier “place in line” in the U.S.—and that earlier date can sometimes beat a business that started using the same mark in the United States later.
If you’re thinking about patenting an idea, here’s the blunt truth upfront: only genuinely new ideas can be patented. That’s why one of the smartest things you can do before spending serious time or money is to check how others have already solved the same problem.
In an age where do-it-yourself solutions are everywhere—from home renovations to tax returns—it's tempting to think legal matters can be handled the same way.
Australian businesses looking to protect inventions in Europe will soon have a more efficient and cost-effective pathway.
Two recent Australian Trade Marks Office (ATMO) decisions provide useful guidance for brand owners on bad faith applications and how far trade mark similarity arguments will really stretch.
At the start of a new year, many businesses reassess their brands, products and IP portfolios. New launches, market entries and clean-ups are common. What’s often overlooked is the risk sitting in IP that appears abandoned.
Fashion Trade Mark disputes usually come down to one blunt question: Is this design a brand identifier—or just decoration riding a trend? That tension sits right at the fault line of intellectual property law, and it’s getting harder for brands to win.
A breakthrough from the University of Copenhagen may offer something brand owners have long needed: proof of authenticity tied to each individual product. Developed by chemist Thomas Just Sørensen, O-KEY technology creates a tiny, invisible digital fingerprint that cannot be copied.
Paramount has successfully shut down a copyright lawsuit over Top Gun: Maverick, with a New York federal judge ruling that the writer bringing the claim never owned copyright in the first place.
