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Sunday, February 14, 2021
Individuals and businesses all over the world rely on the accuracy and integrity of the US Patent and Trademark Office’s (PTO) federal Trademark Register to inform key decisions regarding branding and marketing. The Trademark Modernization Act of 2020 (TMA), part of the COVID-19 relief legislative package signed into law on December 27, 2020, acknowledges this by, among other things, establishing new procedures and creating powerful tools to fortify the reliability of the Register, while addressing the long-standing issues caused by trademark filings based on false assertions of use in the United States.
Challenging Unused Trademarks
The TMA, which will go into effect on December 27, provides two new mechanisms to challenge existing trademark registrations on the ground of non-use and are intended to reduce the effort required for interested parties to remove abandoned marks from the Register.
Thursday, February 11, 2021
On December 27, 2020, the Trademark Modernization Act (TMA) became law as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act spending bill.
1 Despite its name, the TMA impacts not only trademark law, but also false advertising law. The TMA amends the Lanham Act the federal statute covering both trademarks and false advertising in very significant ways.
Among other things, the TMA provides a nationwide presumption of irreparable harm in favor of plaintiffs seeking injunctive relief in trademark and false advertising claims under the Lanham Act.
2 That presumption applies when: (1) a plaintiff seeking a preliminary injunction or temporary restraining order demonstrates a likelihood of success in proving its trademark or false advertising claim; or (2) a plaintiff seeking a permanent injunction proves its trademark or false advertising claim. The presumption is rebuttable by the defendant, although “proving a negative,” such as the lack of irre
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The Trademark Modernization Act (TMA) is an amendment to the Lanham Act concerning trademark disputes, signed on Dec. 27, 2020. The TMA includes a number of changes and enhancements to trademark disputes. The changes concerning actions at the USPTO are tremendous and the subject of another article. These few paragraphs concern the major change to the law as it affects litigation of trademark claims in Federal Court with the resolution of a Federal Circuit split. The TMA creates new law, such that a trademark owner is now entitled to a rebuttable presumption of irreparable harm upon a showing of trademark infringement. This gives trademark owners substantially more power and certainty when enforcing trademarks and will limit forum shopping. Before launching into the details of the TMA, it is important to explain the history and the state of the law before the TMA was passed.