I ♡ Trademarks NewsletterIssue #423
Bri Van Til | March 04, 2025
Domaination
The author of The Clash of Trademarks and Domain Names on the Internet has released a sample of his book and is soliciting feedback on LinkedIn. You can find the book here.
What is domain blocking, and how can it benefit your clients?
For a real-time discussion about best practices for managing domains, register for the I ♡ Trademarks Conference in New York this month so that you can join this roundtable discussion.
There’s Your Trouble
The USPTO may cancel more than 40,000 trademark applications filed by an agency in China.
Ethical issues like these can lead to trademark cancellations, fraud allegations, sanctions, or even disbarment. Join us for this ethics session at the I ♡ Trademarks Conference to learn more about how to protect yourself from inadvertent ethical issues when collaborating with others.
Three LGBTQ+ rights lawyers in Alabama are being sanction for allegedly forum shopping: they were trying to get the state’s gender-affirming care ban overturned.
So Defeated
Apple tried but failed to stop a Korean company from registering the term WAPPLES. Also, I can’t read the word WAPPLES without thinking wah apples. Like they’re crying about it. As, I guess, the Apple team seems to have been.
Amazon has been ordered to pay $39 million—likely the largest IP infringement award in Indian history—for allegedly selling counterfeit Beverly Hills Polo Club products.
Months after we reported she was having difficulty with it, Meghan Markle is abandoning her trademark application for AMERICAN RIVIERA ORCHARD.
Professional Concerns
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Odds and Ends
The ABA-IPL wants to hear your opinions about USPTO trademark wait times. Take their survey here.
It looks like there’s a completely different battle for James Bond trademarks than the one I mentioned a couple weeks ago. I guess you could say they’re looking for a license to kill other Bond properties.
The Supreme Court has ruled on the Dewberry case, finding that profits from an affiliate company can’t be considered in a trademark infringement suit unless the affiliate is named in the case. To hear a longer explanation of the issues at hand, check out this webinar from last year.
In this TTAB dispute, the Board has GIVN a cosmetics company the right to register an identical word mark because cosmetics and water are dissimilar.
Understanding standards and best practices for collecting digital evidence is crucial for admissibility. Join us for this roundtable discussion at the I ♡ Trademarks Conference to learn more. Get your ticket here today.