Jason D. Jones and Karen Lim contributed the United States chapter to the 11th edition of the International Comparative Legal Guide for Trademarks. The 2022 guide provides practical cross-border insights into trademark law.More
12 Fross Zelnick Attorneys Shine as Managing Intellectual Property IP STARS in 2022
Fross Zelnick is pleased to announce that Managing Intellectual Property has recognized 12 attorneys in their annual list of IP STARS, the leading resource for companies or individuals looking for experienced legal practitioners for contentious and non-contentious IP advice. Fross Zelnick partners are ranked alongside the top senior practitioners in New York and the United States.More
Nadine H. Jacobson speaks to Managing IP regarding the differences in navigating trademark offices in the US and EU
Managing Intellectual Property recently quoted Nadine H. Jacobson about how counsel manage trademark procedures across the globe. The difference in requirements for use and description and cancellation proceedings in the EU and US can call for a multi-strategy approach, since both agency’s policies have their pros and cons.More
Fross Zelnick Client Super Duper, Inc. Awarded $3.25 Million in Damages in Online Copyright and Trademark Infringement Action
Fross Zelnick lawyers obtained a significant recovery in a copyright and trademark infringement action in federal court on behalf of educational publisher Super Duper. (Super Duper, Inc. v. PresenceLearning, Inc., 1:20-cv-10783)
On April 25, 2022, the U.S.More
Craig S. Mende speaks to Managing IP about the US’s new copyright small claims forum
In December 2020, the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act (“CASE Act”) was passed. The law introduces the newly-established Copyright Claims Board (“CCB”) – the first copyright small-claims tribunal in the United States, which will hear copyright cases with actual damages of under $30,000.More
Ninth Circuit affirms dismissal of copyright suit against Katy Perry’s “Dark Horse”
Christian hip-hop artists Marcus Gray (“Flame”), Emanuel Lambert, and Chike Ojukwu, composers of the song “Joyful Noise,” sued Katy Perry and others, claiming her hit song, “Dark Horse,” copied the ostinato – a short musical phrase consisting of eight notes – in plaintiffs’ song.More
Seven Fross Zelnick Lawyers Named to Super Lawyers® “Top Women Attorneys in New York 2022”
Congratulations to the attorneys recognized: Joyce M. Ferraro, Lydia T. Gobena, Nadine H. Jacobson, Allison Strickland Ricketts, and Barbara A. Solomon. Roxana Monemdjou and Robin L. Warren were named “Top Women Attorneys in New York 2022 –More
Implementation of the Trademark Modernization Act of 2020 by the USPTO Ushers in New Procedures that Aim to Remove Unused Trademarks from the Register
By Allison Strickland Ricketts
The Trademark Modernization Act (“TMA” or “Act”) enacted new expungement, reexamination and cancellation proceedings that can be deployed for the purpose of cancelling, in whole or in part, registrations for trademarks that are not in use for some or all of the goods and services in a registration:More
Brazil: New Conditions for Registration of Geographical Indications
The Brazil Patent and
Trademark Office outlined new conditions for the registration of Geographical
Indications by way of its Normative Instruction 095/2018, published on December
28, 2018 and entered into force on February 26, 2019.
Geographical indications
(GIs), which can be protected as intellectual property rights,More
Fross Zelnick Wins Two ‘Firm of the Year’ Awards Among MIP Honors for Firm and Lawyers
At Managing Intellectual Property’s 2019 Global IP Awards, Fross Zelnick received three awards: Trademark Contentious Firm of the Year – United States (Northeast), Trademark Contentious Firm of the Year – United States, and Impact Case of the Year Award for work on Royal Crown Co.More