Las Vegas Trademark Attorney

       After months of uncertainty regarding how the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (“PTO”) was going to be handling trademark applications that recite cannabis-related goods and se...

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On June 14, 2018, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois granted summary judgment in favor of PepsiCo, Inc. and its subsidiary, The Gatorade Company (“Gatorade�...

http://www.vegastrademarkattorney.com/2018/06/gatorades-fair-use-defense-defeats.html

On May 21, 2018, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California granted a Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings filed by the creators of a Dr. Seuss-Star Trek mash-up parody ...

http://www.vegastrademarkattorney.com/2018/05/dr-seuss-trademark-claims-against.html

After years of contemplation, I finally decided to go out on my own and established my own law practice which will continue representing clients in connection with various intellectual prop...

http://www.vegastrademarkattorney.com/2018/05/different-firm-name-same-great-las.html

The title of this blog post could also be entitled “How I won at the Ninth Circuit without doing a thing.”  On February 16, 2016, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued its ruling i...

http://www.vegastrademarkattorney.com/2016/02/the-rat-pack-is-generic-ninth-circuit.html

In September 2014, luxury jewelry designer David Yurman filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against Sam’s Club over the alleged unauthorized sales of David Yurman jewelry at Sam’s Cl...

http://www.vegastrademarkattorney.com/2015/04/sams-club-loses-motion-to-dismiss-david.html

It’s hard to believe that Righthaven , the company that was going to change the news media business by applying the patent lawsuit business model to the enforcement of copyrights, filed its fi...

http://www.vegastrademarkattorney.com/2015/03/righthaven-remembered.html

Trademark attorneys in the Ninth Circuit continue to face the fallout from last year’s Ninth Circuit decision in Herb Reed Enterprises, LLC v. Florida Entertainment Management, Inc ., 736 F.3d...

http://www.vegastrademarkattorney.com/2015/03/hakkasan-denied-preliminary-injunctive.html

AirFX,LLC (“Defendant”), the owner of the trademark AirFX , suffered a defeat last week in its attempt to “acquire” (or as some might say “hijack”) the domain name www.airfx.com from...

http://www.vegastrademarkattorney.com/2012/08/marc-lurieairfxcom-wins-reverse-domain.html

Back in 2009 (when I had much more time to blog on a more regular basis), I wrote about the three separate trademark infringement lawsuits filed by Stephens Media LLC (“Stephens Media�...

http://www.vegastrademarkattorney.com/2012/08/stephens-media-wins-200000-default.html

For regular readers who have noticed a lack of activity on this blog, it’s the classic conundrum of client demands getting in the way of blogging.  I hope to be back to normal posting in ...

http://www.vegastrademarkattorney.com/2012/04/new-blog-tracks-las-vegas-sound-choice.html

] When a competitor makes an identical copy of your product, but sells the copy-cat product under a different brand name, do you have any recourse? What if your product and the competitor's prod...

http://www.vegastrademarkattorney.com/2012/02/trade-dress-protection-does-not-prevent.html

Oh how many times there have been where I wanted to blog about some interesting trademark story or legal development . . . only to have client needs get in the way.  So many blog posts started, ...

http://www.vegastrademarkattorney.com/2012/01/blog-posts-that-never-were.html

People take their pets very seriously . . . and apparently the same is true with respect to their pet store trademarks. On January 13, 2012, Puparazzi Industries of America LLC (“PIA”) fi...

http://www.vegastrademarkattorney.com/2012/01/real-dog-of-trademark-case.html

American Express (“Amex”), the issuer of the ultra-exclusive “Centurion Card ” credit card (which is black in color and thus better known among the public as the “Black Card” -- p...

http://www.vegastrademarkattorney.com/2011/11/amex-wins-cancellation-of-blackcard.html

Back in the good ole days of 2009-2010 when I actually had time to blog, I posted about three particular lawsuits filed in the District of Nevada – each of which had significant developments th...

http://www.vegastrademarkattorney.com/2011/10/recent-developments-in-various-pending.html

] The Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act ("ACPA") provides that a person is liable to a trademark owner when the person (1) registers a domain name, (2) in bad faith, (3) that at the t...

http://www.vegastrademarkattorney.com/2011/10/gopets-v-hise-does-transferring-domain.html

] Does an intent-to-use trademark applicant, faced with a trademark office opposition proceeding, have the right to seek declaratory relief in federal court? Or, does the fact that the applican...

http://www.vegastrademarkattorney.com/2011/09/battle-of-bays-tradebay-vs-ebay.html

Tropicana Las Vegas In one of my longer blog posts last year (link here ), I detailed the convoluted and complicated history of the TROPICANA Hotel/Casino trademark – a fascinating look a...

http://www.vegastrademarkattorney.com/2011/08/another-epic-trademark-battle.html

Mystic Lake Casino Hotel in Minnesota ] As first reported by Steve Green , Mystic Lodge casino in Henderson ("Mystic Lodge") lost its trademark dispute with the Mystic Lake Casino Hotel in Mi...

http://www.vegastrademarkattorney.com/2011/08/mystic-lodge-looses-trademark-battle.html

Earlier this year, as local Las Vegas hotel-casino chain Station Casinos was emerging from bankruptcy, it made a large splash about its new marketing campaign focusing on the locals market...

http://www.vegastrademarkattorney.com/2011/07/lot-of-love-in-las-vegas-lately.html

GNLV, Corp., the company which owns the Golden Nugget Hotel & Casino in downtown Las Vegas (as well as Golden Nuggets in Laughlin and Atlantic City ), continues its campaign to go after cyb...

http://www.vegastrademarkattorney.com/2011/06/golden-nuggets-cybersquatting-campaign.html

The owners of the Las Vegas breakfast restaurants The Egg & I and Egg Works got another dose of egg on their face when the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court’s decision ...

http://www.vegastrademarkattorney.com/2011/04/egg-works-loses-9th-circuit-appeal.html

In so many trademark lawsuit stories that grab the media’s attention, the story is often one of a large corporation enforcing its trademark rights against individuals and small businesses in a ...

http://www.vegastrademarkattorney.com/2011/04/caesars-palace-files-declaratory.html

The title of this blog post by Ron Coleman on his Likelihood of Confusion® blog says it all (along with a snazzy new blog layout). And let this be a reminder to all of us to review those ...

http://www.vegastrademarkattorney.com/2011/03/my-sentiments-exactly.html