If someone is exploiting your brand without your consent make sure you enforce your rights quickly. Inaction is sanctioned by ‘laches”: a defense that punish...

Investors and venture capital firms pay close attention to IP due diligence. Preferential repayment schemes, political rights (voting) withi

When a mark is cancelled, the ex-owner of the mark loses the benefits of registration in case they wish to bring an infringement lawsuit. Ye

No doubt IP enforcement requires monitoring and it can be expensive, but it pays off. Last week a federal court in Florida awarded Apple Corp. a $77M judgeme...

Is your company or brand being impacted by defamatory statements? There are federal legal remedies available to trademark owners in the event of #trademark i...

Filing and registering your company’s intellectual property assets is all good and necessary, but it is not enough. IP must serve as a vehicle to propel comp...

https://www.brandiallc.com/what-is-a-trademark Designs, slogans, word marks are traditional forms of trademarks and as such have a tremendous role in the grow...

Like tangible property, intangible corporate assets such as intellectual property are also be used to secure future income. Securitization

Not long ago we discussed NDA’s (non-disclosure agreements) as a mechanism for protecting trade secrets (proprietary information that gives

Copyright law protects works ranging from software, photographs, movies, songs and architectural plans to literary, dramatic, musical, and o

Diligent IP owners register and license their intangible corporate assets to generate additional flows of income. Oftentimes, however, the

Trademarks are words, names, slogans, designs, scents, shapes, sounds and colors companies use to identify their services and products and t

The backlog generated at the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) due to questionable foreign filings in 2019, especially coming

With increasing awareness of the importance of intellectual property in the recent decade business of all sizes are paying more attention to other forms of t...

The (Volkswagen-owned) Bentley Motors Company launched a line of clothing several years ago with the brand BENTLEY and, in the process, atte

Oracle accused Google of copying 11,500 lines of Android computer code and complex structure, and that the unauthorized copying harmed Orac

As one of the most recognized luxury brands Ferrari will be redesigning its licensing strategy by reducing the amount of agreements with thi

The risk of conflict always exists but the risk must be managed with a well-run trademark search and clearance by your attorney. Using a mar

Yesterday a federal court judge in North Carolina stopped Nike Inc. from using the slogan SPORT CHANGES EVERYTHING in their recent ad campai

The European General Court has confirmed the cancellation of the tri-dimensional trademark granted to the Rubik’s Cube. The mark was first c