Verna Law, P.C. is an intellectual property law firm with a team of intellectual property lawyers and a patent agent with decades of experience combined. The practice area of the intellectual property legal team at Verna Law, P.C. include legal services for the...
In a groundbreaking move over the last few years, the U.S. Supreme Court, through its decisions in Matal v. Tam and Iancu v. Brunetti, paved the way for the federal registration of disparaging, immoral, or scandalous trademarks. This legal shift sparked a spectrum of...
This is not the most typical advice you will see on a law firm website. Litigation is about parties coming to fight in a courtroom about who is right and who is wrong. That said, sometimes, you need to prepare to lose. Maybe a defendant did not know of the Plaintiff...
The parent company of Pornhub is demanding that a restaurant in the East Village of New York City change its logo. Mindgeek, the parent company, sent a cease-and-desist letter to the restaurant last month. The letter stated that this could cause confusion among...
It's a fun Super Bowl weekend! So this video blog talks about trademarks for the Super Bowl, the NFL, and teams. Enjoy!
The Patent and Trademark Office of the United States refused to register a Lizzo trademark application for "100% That Bitch" in apparel. The reason why is because a phrase/trademark has to function as a trademark. Taking a T-shirt and puting a phrase on top of it - we...
Let's talk a little bit about the Post cereal lawsuit against OkGo. I think there's been a lot of confusion about that. So I figured even though I'm on the road, let's chat post filed a lawsuit against the band. Okay go. Why Post wants to file a trademark called OkGo...
The "Law & Business" podcast has returned. Once again, we are with Heather Abissi, our co-host, from Abissi Law. We discuss domain names: How domain names are property;How domain names relate to trademark law;In which ways a person or business can challenge the...
The company that holds all of Elvis Presley’s merchandising rights, Authentic Brands Group (ABG), is telling everyone in Las Vegas they can’t use his name. “This couldn’t hit at a worse time. It’s not a good thing,” Clark County Clerk Lynn Goya told the Las Vegas...
Ensure Your Trademark’s Strength: Fanciful, Arbitrary, Suggestive, or Descriptive? In the dynamic field of...
How to Prove Trademark Infringement Trademark law protects a trademark owner's exclusive right to use a trademark when...
How To Transfer a Trademark The owner of a trademark can agree to transfer a trademark in a trademark assignment...