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Your source for news, updates and guidance on all things trademarks and intellectual property.
Your source for news, updates and guidance on all things trademarks and intellectual property.
The USPTO is replacing its decades-old search tool TESS (“Trademark Electronic Search System”) completely as of November 30, 2023 with its new search tool. This search tool is currently called “Trademark Search” and accessible online at: https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/search/sear...
Read moreThe Search Is Over If you’ve been searching for answers about the new USPTO search system, we’ve got you covered. Check out the first installments in our new...
Read more See all issuesThis webinar was recorded on October 14, 2021. Trade mark practice in the UK may initially appear similar to that of the United States given the shared language, but whil...
Read moreYesterday and today mark the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Massacre. Here's a list of great reads about this awful event. John Marshall Law School is offering this fasci...
Read moreIf you're looking for trademark swag, check out the new Alt Legal Trademarket. More items will be released soon, and all proceeds go to The Playing Field Project, a worth...
Read moreThe EFF is urging Congress to step in to reform the patent process, including to reduce patent trolling. So-called patent trolls cost inventors tons of money, so dozens o...
Read moreThe CARES Act signed into law on Friday gives the USPTO the power to modify patent and trademark deadlines, but it is not yet clear what policies they'll implement as a r...
Read moreSony and Marvel Studios, whose battle threatened to break up the Avengers, have reconciled....
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