by Francine Ward | Feb 12, 2017 | Trademarks
When trademarking your brand, it is vital to conduct a comprehensive trademark search to determine if the mark can be registered. Yet, as important as this step is, many folks avoid doing it. Why? One reason may be cost. The cost of investing in a trademark search is...
by Francine Ward | Jan 8, 2017 | Trademarks
What is the difference between a Trademark and a Copyright? While speaking at conferences and webinars a frequent legal question that continuously seems to come up is the difference between a trademark and copyright. And there is indeed a distinction between a...
by Francine Ward | Dec 29, 2016 | Trademarks
Cause Confusion. Many people think that in order to be in violation of trademark law you have to copy a trademarked work exactly down to the tee. This, of course, is not true. Creating something that looks very similar to a trademarked work that can “cause confusion”...
by Francine Ward | Oct 30, 2016 | Legal Blog
Copyright Lawsuit. What do you do if a major department store chain uses your trademarked designs on its products without your permission? You take them to court for trademark infringement, of course. That’s what happened when illustrator Lili Chin found out that...
by Francine Ward | Oct 30, 2016 | Uncategorized
Just in time for Halloween, the producer of the hit cable TV series, The Walking Dead, has filed a Trademark infringement lawsuit over the use of the name ‘Valhalla.’ Trademark Lawsuit. Valhalla Entertainment, the company behind The Walking Dead series, as well as two...
