I ♡ Trademarks NewsletterIssue #444
Bri Van Til | August 12, 2025
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Client Resources
This handy guide explains how to avoid copyright issues when using music on social media posts.
Industry-specific resources like this guide to IP in the construction industry can be informative and help you attract clients.
Here’s an overview of the types of IP one might use to protect brands and products in the cannabis space.
Go here to find an explainer of what clients can do when their Amazon Merch-on-Demand accounts are terminated.
Resources like this can help ensure clients understand what’s fair use and what isn’t.
IP Applecations
Apple is suing Apple Cinemas, alleging the theater company will cause confusion and dilute their brand.
A judge in Virginia has ruled that Apple can register trademarks for REALITY COMPOSER and REALITY CONVERTER, denying claims the marks were merely descriptive.
Apple has patented new camera tech for the iPhone.
Vive la Résistance
Someone has filed a trademark application for ALLIGATOR ALCATRAZ, claiming it’s to protect against “hate merch.”
Following Columbia University’s unrelated legal battles, they are being sued by Columbia Sportswear after the two had come to an agreement in 2023. To learn more about co-existence agreements and how to make them effective, sign up for this webinar.
Amazon is working to shut down the domains of fake review websites.
Professional Concerns
The only thing better than the thrill of the Chase of this AGC position would be actually getting it.
You should apply for this trademark counsel position. Even if you’ve applied before, you can take another bite at the Apple.
If you just get more excited about this general counsel position each time you look at it, would you say you had Compounding interest?
Use a NetApp to apply for this senior counsel position. ‘Cause who uses a paper application these days?
You’ll want more Info (Law Group) about this privacy and tech attorney gig.
Have an open role on your team? Email us at [email protected], and we’ll try to get it in our next newsletter!
Odds and Ends
Don’t miss this webinar on Thursday about trademarks in the Middle East and North Africa.
The USPTO is changing its MFA requirements. Get ready!
The recently-reintroduced Transparency and Responsibility for Artificial Intelligence Networks (TRAIN) Act would inform and compensate copyright holders if their works are used to train AI models.
Taiwan’s new guidelines for nontraditional trademarks have taken effect.
The heirs of Victor Maitland claim the NFL has infringed his trademarks for over 35 years.