Adding Additional Classes To Your Existing Trademark

Business owners may file trademark applications and later wish to add additional classes as their businesses expand to more goods and services. Unfortunately, people cannot directly amend trademark applications to add additional classes, but they may be able to establish new filings with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Therefore, adding new classes to a trademark is made possible by creating new applications.

According to the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), international […]

By | October 18th, 2022 ||

Russia: Protection Of Patents And Trademarks In The Eurasian Economic Union

Eurasian Economic Union (hereinafter, EAEU or Union) is the international economic integration organization founded under the Treaty on the Eurasian Economic Union entered into force on January 1 2015. As of end of August 2015 Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia, Kyrgyzstan and Armenia are members of the Union.

There are no customs borders between the countries of EAEU and the goods can freely move within this single market space. In this regard the matter of protection of […]

By | October 9th, 2022 ||

Copyright Claim By Prince’s Photographer Defeated On Implied License Theory

Yes, another copyright case involving Prince (of Paisley Park, not of Wales). (But not the biggie.)

And another case dealing with the fallout of a collaboration that went south. (Here are here are others we have covered recently.)

In the late 1970s into the early ’80s, plaintiff Allen Beaulieu took some truly extraordinary and iconic photographs of Prince. (This is my favorite.) In 2014, Beaulieu began working on a book about his years at the side of the High Priest of Pop. He […]

By | October 8th, 2022 ||