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Alt Legal IP News – Issue #230
When authorship is shared (as it often is in open-source and copyleft projects), what IP can you protect? Join us for our webinar this Thursday, where Hopkins & Carle...
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How to Respond to Section 2(e)(4) Surname Refusals: A Video Q&A with IP Attorney John Miranda
Surname refusals are on the rise with the USPTO. As a result of trademark clutter and depletion, trademark applicants are simply running out of eligible trademarks to cho...
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Q&A With David Postolski: Responding to Generic and Descriptive Office Actions
Following our webinar with David Postolski, Who You Calling Generic?: Responsing to Generic and Descriptive Office Actions, we received a number of questions from our aud...
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Restoration by Modernization: How the Trademark Modernization Act of 2020 Supports Consumer Expectations and Promotes Access to Justice
Trademark Law is getting its groove back. On December 27, 2020, trademark law stepped into the modern era, finessing its 74-year-old body of laws into something for the b...
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Alt Legal IP News – Issue #225
The USPTO is hosting a webinar to teach you all about IP protection in China. The ABA says it's okay for a lawyer to sit in a different jurisdiction from the one in which...
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Alt Legal Webinar: Who You Calling Generic?: Responding to Generic and Descriptive Office Actions
As the US Trademark Register becomes increasingly crowded and costs to develop a fanciful or arbitrary trademark can be astronomical for a small business, many brand owne...
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