Several members of the 24IP Law Group will be attending the upcoming 2015 INTA annual meeting in San Diego, CA. Multiple partners and counsel of the firm from around the world will be in attendance including Jed Ferdinand (New York), Katrin Lewertoff (Westport), and Dan Lacy (San Diego).
Please feel free to reach out to Dan Lacy at DLacy@24iplg.com to set up a meeting. We look forward to seeing you at the show.
The March 2015 issue of The Licensing Journal featured an article by Jed Ferdinand and Dan Lacy titled Recent Developments in Trademark Licensing...click to read full article
The Supreme Court Term in Review: The Court Is Critical of Patent Trolls and Federal Circuit in Recent Term
Partners from the firm from our offices in both Europe and the United States will be attending the upcoming UK licensing show.
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LIMA to launch “Inside Licensing” newsletter to offer industry news, trends and analysis...click to read full article
A large contingent from the 24IP Law Group will be attending the upcoming 2014 Licensing Expo in Las Vegas. Multiple partners and counsel of the firm from around the world will be in attendance including Jed Ferdinand (New York), Christian Fortmann (Munich), Dr. Sebastian Tegethoff (Berlin), Jessica Rutherford (Westport), and Dan Lacy (San Diego)...click title to read on
Everything old is new again, particularly when it comes to clas- sic entertainment properties. In the past few years, we’ve witnessed the resurgence of My Little Pony, Care Bears, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Lone Ranger, and The Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit. Then there are those properties that seem to remain forever rel- evant,...click to read full article
Eight years after the Supreme Court’s decision in eBay Inc. v. MercExchange LLC,1 the lower federal courts are still grappling with the applicability of the presumption of irreparable harm for granting injunctive relief in IP cases. Traditionally, courts awarded injunctive relief to a successful patentee in patent infringement cases based on a presumption of irreparable...click to read full article
Recently, The Hollywood Reporter published an article entitled “Why Warner Bros. Trademarked Nightwing,” which detailed the stark divergence of opinion among the major US movie studios on the importance of formally registering trademarks for their film properties. For example, Warner Brothers and Walt Disney have aggressive trademark filing pro- grams. Each owns more than 5,000 active trademarks in the United States alone and likely thousands more internationally.
While this may be an interesting academic dif- ference of opinion among the major studios, and certainly one with economic consequences consid- ering that formal trademark protection for large merchandising programs can be very expensive, the fact is that trademark registrations are critical for licensor-brand owners seeking to develop licensing and merchandising programs. This article addresses why formal trademark protection is standard in the licensing industry...click to read full article
