By Kurt Leyendecker
Over the years, I have written a significant amount concerning patent strategy and patent procedure aimed at entrepreneurial companies and individuals, and most of the information was available on my firm’s website. The firm recently unveiled a new modern and streamlined website. Much of the old content was removed with […]
By Peter Lemire
A while back, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision in what has come to be known as the “Dancing Baby Case”. Every business needs to know about it before sending Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown notices to Web hosts and other […]
June 22, 2015
Leyendecker & Lemire speaks to trademark issues often – with clients and within this column. In the world of intellectual property, this might seem strange. After all, patents are usually the ones in the spotlight, soaking up all of the adoration […]
By Kurt Leyendecker
Driving into the office recently, I heard a commercial for a local small business broadcast over the radio. A well-known local radio personality and pitchman explained the business was changing its name to one that better reflected the fact that the business […]
Anyone who has watched even a small amount of television over the past year or so is probably familiar with the Ford commercials featuring Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs fame pitching cars with engines that utilize EcoBoost® technology.
EcoBoost engines are those that offer power comparable with that of their […]
By Peter Lemire
When meeting with clients, we often explain to them that securing intellectual property rights of inventions or products is an important step of the process, but it is just the start and sometimes is the easiest part of bringing a product to market or […]
For as long as I can remember, I have loved bicycles. In 1981, two high school buddies and I biked around Lake Ontario. The next year, two of us cycled across New England. On both these trips I rode a Motobecane, which was the premier French bicycle brand back in late 70’s […]
If you have followed the news lately, you’ve probably have heard about the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO) board decision to cancel the Washington Redskin’s federal trademark registrations covering their name and graphical logo. The USPTO had determined that the term, “Redskin” and the graphical logo associated with the NFL team, violated trademark […]
Many years ago, John Sylvan had an idea: provide a hermetically-sealed, compact cartridge containing a filter and enough ground coffee to brew a single serving in a specially designed brewer. After the freshly brewed coffee was delivered, the remaining carcass would simply be discarded without fuss or muss. Sylvan’s brilliant idea came to him in […]
In the first part of this article, I discussed what trademarks are, what they protect and what factors courts generally use to determine if a trademark has been infringed. In this installment I will be discussing how courts have dealt with the rise of keyword advertising and the use of trademarks in keyword advertising.
In the […]
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