By Thomas F. Zuber and Jan Jensen of Zuber & Taillieu LLP
The Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that the Trademark Dilution Revision Act of 2005 (“TDRA”) does not require proof of “substantial similarity” between the marks in question for a trademark owner to establish dilution by blurring. In Starbucks Corp. v. Wolfe’s Borough Coffee, Inc., 588 F.3d 97 (2nd… More...
Legislation authored by Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) to help assist trademark owners in maintaining the protection of their brands will now head to the President’s desk to be signed into law, after its passage by the House of Representatives and the Senate on March 3, 2010 and January 28, 2010, respectively. More...
Rep. John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mi) has filed a House version of the Patent Reform Act of 2009 to match the Senate version filed by Senators Orrin Hatch (R-Ut) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt) (S. 515). More...
On August 5, 2008, t he U.S. Congress sent to President George Bush for signing a bill that transfers the power to appoint administrative trademark judges and administrative patent judges from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) to the Secretary of Commerce. Previously, under the More...
The U.S. Senate has unanimously passed on Tuesday, July 22, 2008 a bill that transfers the power to appoint administrative trademark judges and administrative patent judges from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) to the Secretary of Commerce. The proposed legislation however did not More...
This proposed legislation was introduced in the House of Representatives by Rep. Wiiliam D. Delahunt (Ma.), and co-sponsored by 17 others on March 29, 2007. As the title of the bill suggests, the bill the Director of the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is given the discretion to accept late More...
This bill was introduced in the Senate by Sen. Patrick J. Leahy on July 17, 2007, and co-sponsored by three others, and is a legislation that seeks “(t)o restore to the judiciary the power to decide all trademark and trade name cases arising under the laws and treaties of the United States by More...
