I ♡ Trademarks NewsletterIssue #461
Bri Van Til | December 16, 2025
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Year in Revenue
Does piracy help or hurt box office revenue? Turns out the answer is that it depends. Fascinating!
Need more clients? This webinar next month will guide you through creating a pipeline for your firm. For more advice about developing a marketing plan, watch this webinar recording from a few years ago.
As a reminder, valuable content like this list of M&A tips can drive potential clients to your firm’s site and help educate your existing clients.
From Your Friends at Alt Legal
If you missed last week’s famous year-end webinar covering the biggest trademark issues of 2025, go here to watch the recording.
From Tam to Brunetti to Elster, free speech has come up a lot in recent trademark litigation. How does that apply to your practice? Join us for this webinar next year to hear arguments you can use in prosecution and litigation, both to defend and to oppose.
We put on 13 fabulous webinars this year. Find recaps and recordings of them all here.
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Follow the Leader
Adnexus and Meta were duking it out over ad patents, but the case has been sent back to the lower court.
As this author has discovered, copyright lawsuits over embedded content from social media sites “are still a thing.”
Going viral on TikTok led an Ohio coffee shop to be discovered by a shop owner with a similar name, leading to a trademark infringement lawsuit and a rebrand.
Professional Concerns
You might currently be a trademark advicer (you know, someone who gives advice about trademarks) but you can instead become a trademark advisor if you apply for this position at the USPTO.
Taking this senior IP counsel gig will likely put you in a real Motional state.
Prove your medal with this job as managing licensing and anti-counterfeiting counsel for the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
I’m just going to come right out and tell you there’s an opening for lead privacy counsel for this dating app; I don’t want to Bumble it by trying to make a joke.
If you get this junior counsel position at Hermès, you can say you metaBirkin maker. You probably won’t get the job if you say that at the interview, though, since they were a little upset about the likelihood of confusion there.
Looking for a place to Chanel your creativity? Apply to be senior IP counsel for this luxury goods producer.
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
The USPTO is urging Congress to change how musicians are compensated when their works are played on the radio.
Did you get your ticket for INTA yet? Come hang out with me in London!
This battle over Minifigure trademarks and copyrights is a Zuru sum game; the plaintiff won’t Lego.
What’s Ferrero to do with its competitors’ counterfeit packaging? Fill it with Nutella to donate to the poor. At least that was a suggestion made by a justice in India.
The I 💚 Trademarks Newsletter will take a break for the holidays. And by the newsletter, I mean me. Look for the next issue on January 6th, and have a fabulous holiday season!