David Ferrance is an attorney with Law 4 Small Business, P.C. He is licensed to practice law in the State of New Mexico and the US Patent and Trademark Office.
New Mexico law firms seem to have increasingly sought to protect their names or other trademarks recently. Traditionally, firm names have been boring, consisting mainly of the last names of...
Probably everyone is familiar with Amazon, one of the most successful and popular online retailers in the world. Amazon’s popularity makes it one of the best places for businesses to...
One of the more bewildering aspects of a trademark application is describing the goods and services the mark will identify. In this post we look at how the USPTO classifies...
Intellectual property is in the news again this week. Atari, an iconic video game company, sued Nestle, alleging that Nestle committed IP infringement on its classic “Breakout” video game by...
Many people believe that they have the right to use their last name (i.e. surname) as part of their business name. This makes sense, as many people share the same...
It’s always exciting (at least for trademark lawyers) whenever the Supreme Court issues an opinion about trademark law. The court recently issued its opinion in Matal v. Tam, an appeal...
If you are like most of our readers, you got to this page after you googled something trademark-related. And if you are like most people, you probably didn’t think twice...
As business attorneys, we frequently deal with copyright questions related to graphic arts and other commercial artwork. Usually this means putting agreements in place to make sure everyone owns the...
We help a lot of small businesses protect their trademarks and one issue that comes up frequently is identifying the correct owner. This is the very first entry you must...
One of the things I like about helping trademark clients is that I get to spend a lot of time educating them on how the law works. This is one...
We’ve written before about the importance of acting quickly when it comes to registering your trademark. Even if you are entitled to registration, waiting to file can add significant delay...
I’ve been running into a lot of contracts disputes lately where a party’s rights were potentially affected by missing boilerplate provisions. Boilerplate generally refers to language that is reused from one...