Trademark applicants who are under the impression that it’s OK to file a trademark for a broad range of goods or services, even if you’re not actually doing business with all of those offerings: beware. The United States Patent & Trademark Office recently completed a survey of 500 randomly selected registered trademarks in order to […]

When trademarks cross over into the everyday news — as in the recent case of a company filing a US trademark application in an attempt to register MH 17 as a trademark, the flight number of the downed Malaysia Airlines plane – it’s usually on account of someone trying to register and reserve use of […]

Shortly after California Chrome won the Preakness Stakes, the second leg of horse racing’s coveted and elusive Triple Crown, news emerged that the horse’s owners had filed to register the name as a trademark with the United States Patent & Trademark Office. In fact, they had made the filing on May 15th – before California […]