In Mission Prod. Holdings, Inc. v. Tempnology, LLC, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an opinion at the intersection of trademark and bankruptcy law. The Court resolved a circuit split on the issue of whether the "rejection" of a trademark license agreement by the licensor under Section 365(a) of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code (the Code) bars the licensee from continuing to use the trademark. Justice Kagan, writing for an 8-1 Court, answered with a resounding "No." [...]

A Florida business owner will face off against ride-sharing giant Uber over claims that her new beauty app “BeauBer” infringes the company’s trademark. Carolina Vengoechea began developing BeauBer—a play on her two job titles, beautician and barber—in 2018 to help her customers book salon appointments more easily. She told the New York Post that Uber is now demanding she give up the app’s name, arguing it attempts to capitalize on the Uber brand. In recent years, [...]

The United States Patent & Trademark Office issued an alert to U.S. lawyers warning that unauthorized changes have been made to a number of active trademark applications and registrations by bad actors. The Office warned that these changes may be part of a scheme to register the marks of others on third-party "brand registries." We have not been notified of any such hack for any of your trademark applications or registrations that we are handling. However, [...]