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Part of my work involves monitoring companies’ trademarks and making sure that others do not register similar marks to parasite brand recognition. With increasing frequency, I encounter and challenge Chinese companies that are trying to register marks (abroad or domestically) similar to those that I’m trying to protect. Today, The […]

Sometimes, if you’re lucky, you stumble across the right word to describe a concept so familiar it feels like home. The term ecotone is used in ecology to describe a transition area between biomes where two otherwise disparate plant or animal communities meet, integrate, and coexist. The word combines elements […]

There are so many online resources available for filing federal trademark applications. Legalzoom and Trademarkia are just a couple of examples.  Do you really need to pay an attorney to file a trademark application? yes—and you should use one with trademark experience. First, the United States Patent and Trademark Office […]

Difference can find confluence in unique places. Here, former drug traffickers meet Netflix at trademark law. As background, Netflix’s growth in recent years has been impressive, due in part to successful original content like Narcos—a series based on Columbia’s Medellin and Cali drug cartels. Roberto Escobar—Pablo’s brother and ex-assassin/accountant—thought it […]