You’ll recall that there was a dispute over the ownership of the name of the famous Central Park restaurant “Tavern on the Green.” The restaurant owner owned two registrations for “Tavern on the Green” marks, one for restaurant services (the “Restaurant Mark” and “Restaurant Registration”) and one for oils and dressings (the “Oil and...
Read more →A debtor-in-possession had a contract it wanted to assign. The contract included a trademark license, but it was somewhat unusual in structure. For starters, it was a trademark sublicense, not a direct license, for the mark “Jag Jeans”: There is no registered trademark for “Jag Jeans,” although there are several for “Jag” owned by...
Read more →One opposed mark The TTABlog brings us the last (?) chapter in the Winnie the Pooh story – well, it’s the last pending action at least, after a state court litigation, an appeal of it, a federal court litigation, and an appeal of it, all of which SSI lost. But never say never. The...
Read more →I don’t follow patent law as attentively as I do copyright and trademark, but I don’t recall seeing too many shop right cases. Maybe this is ordinary stuff, but it was new to me. First though is the dispute over who owned the invention, the employee or the employer. Normally it’s pretty well defined...
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