Nov 25, 2021
The International Trademark Association (INTA) has officially announced its 2022–2025 Strategic Plan, which will guide all Association initiatives over the next four years. The Plan builds on INTA’s progress in recent years in expanding its substantive and geographic...
Nov 25, 2021
The National Markets Group for IP Protection (NMG), a multi-agency focus group aimed at reducing the availability of counterfeit goods at physical markets and online, is warning consumers to watch out for fake, and potentially dangerous goods, that may appear on...
Nov 25, 2021
In a ground-breaking academic article, GeneriTrend Founder, Dr Cameron Shackell, points out a new type of genericness in trademarks involved in internet search. Dr Shackell first reminds us that the trademark system exists to reduce search cost in the economy. He then...
Nov 18, 2021
The International Trademark Association (INTA) has announced that it will be holding its 2022 Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., April 30 to May 4—returning to an in-person format for the first time in more than two years. Unlike past in-person Annual Meetings, the...
Nov 18, 2021
Tina Turner is suing a German tribute act because she looks too much like the real thing. The case is unlikely to keep tribute acts off the UK stage, says media, entertainment and intellectual property lawyers Collyer Bristow. Howard Ricklow, Partner, Collyer Bristow...
Nov 11, 2021
Social media giant, Facebook, is heading for a high-profile dispute over intellectual property rights, after announcing plans to rebrand its business using the name ‘Meta’. It seems the social media giant was unaware that an Arizona-based retailer, Meta PCs, which...
