Worldwide: Trademark

Even without a Senate-confirmed director in place, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) under the new Trump administration is taking a bold new direction.

On July 23, 2025, in a significant update for the evolving intersection of intellectual property and blockchain technology, the United States Court of Appeals...

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has had a turbulent start to 2025. The U.S. administration issued an executive order implementing a federal hiring freeze on January 20, 2025.

In the past few months, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ("PTO") Acting Director has made substantial changes to the process for, and factors considered in...

The Digital Services Act ("DSA"), which entered into force for all intermediary services and online platforms in February 2024, aims to modernize and harmonize the regulation of third-party content across the EU.

You run an ecommerce business, selling products through your own website—let's say it's [yourname.com]. One day, a customer emails you asking why their order never arrived. You check their confirmation number, but there's no record of it in your system.

Superman has soared back onto the big screen, and unless you've been locked in the Fortress of Solitude, you already know his origin story: Rocketed from the doomed planet Krypton.

Two years ago, the Supreme Court decided Abitron Austria GmbH v. Hetronic International, Inc., which narrowed the extraterritorial reach of the Lanham Act.

The business relationship between Big League Chew Properties LLC ("Big League Chew"), the owner of the well-known Big League Chew brand of shredded bubble gum, and Ford Gum & Machine Company Inc. ("Ford"), Big League Chew's exclusive licensed manufacturer, soured after Ford filed a trademark application to register rights in the product's shredded gum configuration.