by Madan Law | Feb 18, 2017 | Branding, Intellectual Property, Trademarks
If you’re a millennial, then you may be very familiar with the popular animated Nickelodeon television series, SpongeBob SquarePants, that ran 9 seasons from 1999 until 2012, was made into two animated films (with another in the works), and was also made into two...
by Madan Law | Feb 7, 2017 | Branding, Intellectual Property, Madan Law, SBSO, Trademarks
Let’s give a big shout-out to DLA Editors & Proofers! This week’s #SmallBusinessShoutout goes out to the expert team that makes sure all documents you give them to review will be free of any grammatical errors. Since 2008, DLA Editors & Proofers...
by Madan Law | Feb 1, 2017 | Branding, Intellectual Property, Madan Law, Patent, Trademarks
What makes Walt Disney Parks the “happiest place on earth”? Is it meeting Disney characters, like Belle and Mickey Mouse, that we grew up watching over and over again, or new stars, like Princess Anna, that Disney continues to create that tug at our heart...
by Madan Law | Jan 30, 2017 | Branding, Intellectual Property, Trademarks
Last year, the legal team of Australian pop star, Kylie Minogue, filed a notice of opposition to Kylie Jenner’s trademark application for ‘Kylie’ for ‘entertainment services’, after Jenner filed several federal trademark applications...
by Madan Law | Jan 25, 2017 | Branding, Intellectual Property, Patent, Trademarks
How would you feel after buying tires that you thought were authentic BMW tires? Or… What if you KNEW that they were knockoffs, exact replicas with the BMW logo for half the price? The German automaker, BMW, discovered that Mazz Auto Group, an American company,...
by Madan Law | Jan 18, 2017 | Branding, Intellectual Property, Trademarks
Did you hear… The Portland, Oregon Asian American dance-rock band, “The Slants”, had been denied by the United States Patent and Trademark Office to approve its band name as a federally protected trademark? In 2011, the USPTO refused trademark application to The...
