Specialty Group: Intellectual Property, Information Technology & Cybersecurity

In China, goods and services in different classes and sub-classes* are considered dissimilar, subject to limited exceptions specified in the classification book. Brand owners often find such rigidity a hurdle in their ac ...

Shadow companies are companies with company names incorporating or confusingly similar to trademarks or brand names of others, neither with the authorization of nor being in any way connected to the trademark or brand na ...

Authors: Karen Frank and Sabrina Larson In December 2020, Congress passed the Trademark Modernization Act (the “TMA”), providing for numerous changes in the processes for registering trademarks and maintaining trad ...

Author: Tilbe Birengel Introduction The procedural rules on mass claims within European Union (“EU”) Member States is not uniform. To improve the position of consumers who might wish to make such claims, the Europe ...