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The US government IP Offices are responding to the coronavirus outbreak by adjusting rules and requirements to allow for increased safety of applicants and users, and of the examining attorneys [...]

Most trademarks are for words or images, used as brand names, company names, slogans, or logos, as discussed in several of my posts on trademarks.  A trademark can be just about anything [...]

Design patents protect the ornamental appearance of an object.  With a design patent application, you can protect the shape of the object, the surface ornamentation of the object, or both.  A [...]

Groundhog Day is a tradition celebrated mostly in the US and Canada, yearly on Feb. 2nd, in which if a groundhog sees its shadow, winter will persist, and if the groundhog doesn’t, then [...]

In the U.S., trademark rights are built through use, not by registration.  If you don’t register your mark, you will have common law trademark rights.  So why go through the time and [...]

You can register a trademark on a geographical location.  And there can be good reasons for choosing a place name as part of your trademark: it may suggest a quality associated with that place, [...]