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Describing oneself as being wanderlust is common these days, but when it comes to why they choose to travel, Maanasa Gopal might have the most compelling reason of all. The Singapore-based entrepreneur is no stranger to unconventional travel experiences, from hitchhiking across Iran to living in the Sumatran jungle. This time around, the 25-year-old youth climate advocate completed a carbon-negative...

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The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has issued a remarkable opinion in Lodestar Anstalt v Bacardi & Co Ltd (Case Number 19-55864, 2022 WL…

Kathi Vidal, the USPTO’s new director, set out her vision for the office at the INTA Annual Meeting, including her desire to focus on pro-bono and inclusion

The general rule under U.S. trademark law is that the first to use a trademark in U.S. commerce has priority in the mark over other "would-be" users of the same, or confusingly similar,...

In the last two years, the trademark practice in Brazil has had a considerable change of scenario with the implementation of the Madrid Protocol, back…

"Trademark" is defined as any sign capable of being represented graphically, which is capable of distinguishing goods or services of one undertaking from those of other undertakings.

We compiled the first list of Antarctic species and where they were first found. This knowledge means we can now protect all of the icy continent’s species.

In an interesting twist, the Ninth Circuit granted summary judgment to a defendant in a trademark infringement case in Lodestar v. Bacardi on April 21, 2022. Given the Ninth Circuit’s...

Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals found Madrid Protocol grants priority as of the constructive use date, but to prevail on an infringement action based on that superior right of priority, the registrant must establish the requisite likelihood of confusion under the Lanham Act