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- Proving and Defeating Trademark Abandonment: A Litigator's Guide to Non-Use, Intent to Resume, and Excusable Non-Use · Guide — This guide is the operational companion to Marksy's abandonment article, and it assumes the doctrine rather than re-teaching it. It walks a single invented…
- Jewellery and Watch IP Checklist: Design Filings, Hallmark and Marking Compliance, Serialisation and Authentication, Resale and Servicing Terms, and Counterfeit Response · Checklist — This checklist audits the intellectual property position of a jewellery or watch business in the order the questions arise. It starts with the design portfolio…
- Franchise System IP Checklist: Mark and System Documentation, Disclosure and Registration Records, Standards and Inspection Evidence, Territory and Transfer Terms, and Post-Termination De-Identification · Checklist — A ten-phase working checklist for franchisors, franchisees, master franchisees, and licensors who may have become franchisors without noticing. Phases one…
- Trademark License Quality Control Checklist: Standards, Inspection, and Recordkeeping · Checklist — This checklist is the working document for running a United States trademark license so that the licensee's use keeps inuring to the owner under 15 U.S.C. §…
- Branding Money: Trademarks, Advertising, and Naming in Financial Services · Article — Financial services is the other industry where a brand name has to clear regulators before it can clear the market. Unlike pharmaceuticals, the gatekeepers…
- Anticounterfeiting Program Checklist: Recordation, Marketplace Takedowns, and Seizure Response · Checklist — This checklist turns counterfeiting doctrine and border-enforcement mechanics into a ten-phase program a practitioner can work top to bottom, from the…
- Entity Name and DBA Checklist: Formation, Registration, Clearance, and Conflicts · Checklist — Business naming goes wrong in a predictable order, and this checklist reverses it. It runs eight phases: generate and screen candidates, knock them out, clear…
- Fighting or Defending Parallel Imports: A Practitioner's Guide to Material Differences, Customs, and Distribution Control · Guide — This guide is the execution manual for a gray market problem on either side of it, and assumes the doctrine covered in the companion article rather than…
- Protecting a Nonprofit or Membership Brand: A Practitioner's Guide to Chapter Licences, Volunteer Works, and Fundraising Compliance · Guide — This guide builds a nonprofit brand programme in the order that matches how these organisations actually fail. It starts with registration, including the…
- Genericness Defense and Prevention Checklist: Evidence, Style Rules, and Survey Design · Checklist — This checklist runs a genericness matter from prevention through trial in twelve phases a practitioner can work top to bottom. Phases 1 through 7 build the…
- The Lawful Use Requirement: Why the USPTO Refuses Cannabis, Kratom, and Vape Marks · Article — Federal trademark registration requires use in commerce, and the USPTO has long read that phrase to mean lawful use in commerce — a requirement that appears…
- Trade Names and the Non-Trademark Layer Toolkit: Entities, DBAs, and Business Identity · Toolkit — Four different names attach to a single business, they live in four different systems, and only one of them gives the right to stop a competitor. This toolkit…
- International Trademark Toolkit: Madrid, Paris, and Country-by-Country Strategy · Toolkit — There is no such thing as an international trademark, and every good foreign filing decision starts from that fact. This toolkit maps the four routes a U.S.…
- Trademarks in the Deal: Chain of Title, Security Interests, and the Anti-Assignment-in-Gross Rule · Article — A trademark is not a piece of property that travels on its own — it is a symbol of goodwill, and United States law refuses to let the symbol move without the…
- Branding a Real Estate Development: A Practitioner's Guide to Property Marks, Naming Rights, Renderings, and Community Names · Guide — This guide takes a development brand from the naming meeting to the disposal, in the order the decisions actually arise. It begins with the question that…
- Professional Services Branding Checklist: Entity and Firm Name, Credential and Superlative Claims, Advertising Review, Directory Listings, and Partner Departure · Checklist — This checklist runs a professional firm's brand under the two regimes that govern it at once — trademark law and the profession's own advertising and naming…
- Food and Beverage IP Checklist: Name Clearance, Label Review, Trade Dress Evidence, Recipe Protection, and Supplier Terms · Checklist — This checklist runs a food, beverage, or restaurant intellectual property programme in the order the deadlines fall. It opens with dual clearance - the…
- Descriptive and Nominative Fair Use: When You Can Legally Use Someone Else's Trademark · Article — American trademark law recognizes two distinct doctrines that both go by the name "fair use," and confusing them is one of the most expensive mistakes a…
- Litigating Expressive-Use Trademark Disputes: A Practitioner's Guide After Jack Daniel's v. VIP Products · Guide — This guide is the operational companion to Marksy's doctrinal article on Rogers and Jack Daniel's, and it assumes that doctrine rather than repeating it. It…
- Certification and Collective Mark Application Checklist: Standards, Governance, and Filing · Checklist — Twelve phases take a certification or collective mark from the first client meeting to the tenth-year renewal, every item written as an action you can complete…
- Brand Enforcement Toolkit: Watching, Warning, and Escalating · Toolkit — This toolkit assembles the Marksy corpus into one enforcement operating system: what to watch, how to triage what the watch returns, and how far up the…
- Declaratory Judgment Checklist: Case or Controversy, Venue, and the Race to the Courthouse · Checklist — Fourteen phases that take a threatened party from the demand letter on the desk to a judgment, a covenant, or a coexistence agreement. The order is deliberate…
- Two Owners, One Mark: Concurrent Use and the Geography of Coexistence · Article — American trademark law is unusual in allowing two unrelated companies to own federal registrations for the same mark, each limited to its own slice of the…
- Filing on a Foreign Basis: A Practitioner's Guide to Section 44 Priority Claims, Home Registrations, and Scope Traps · Guide — This guide is the operational half of the Marksy article on Section 44, and it assumes you know the difference between a 44(d) priority claim and a 44(e)…
- Use It or Lose It: Trademark Abandonment, Non-Use, and the Three-Year Presumption · Article — American trademark rights are built on use, and they dissolve when use stops. This article explains the statutory definition of abandonment in 15 U.S.C. §…
- Settling a Trademark Dispute: A Practitioner's Guide to Coexistence Terms, Consent Judgments, and Enforcement · Guide — This guide runs a trademark settlement from the first valuation memo to the enforcement motion three years later, and it is written on the premise that the…
- Changing the Name on the Door: The Law and Logistics of a Rebrand · Article — A rebrand looks like a marketing project and behaves like a legal one. This article explains what actually happens to a company's rights when it changes its…
- Drafting a Trademark License That Survives: A Practitioner's Guide to Quality Control, Scope, and Royalties · Guide — This guide is the clause-by-clause execution manual for a United States trademark license, built around one deal carried from term sheet to termination: a…
- Franchise System IP Toolkit: Marks, Standards, Territory, Transfers, and Termination · Toolkit — A franchise is a trademark licence with an operations manual attached, and the intellectual property questions inside it decide whether the network holds…
- Protecting a Jewellery or Watch Brand: A Practitioner's Guide to Design Filings, Hallmarks, Serialisation, Resale, and Counterfeits · Guide — This guide is for counsel responsible for a jewellery or watch brand. It is built around a fact that shapes everything else: the designs that matter most are…
- Operating a Franchise System: A Practitioner's Guide to Disclosure, System Standards, Territory, Transfers, and Termination · Guide — A working guide to advising a franchisor, a franchisee, or a licensor who may have become one without noticing. It opens with the three reviews every franchise…
- Failure to Function: Ornamental Use, Informational Matter, and the Marks That Are Not Marks · Article — The most common reason a trademark application dies is not that someone else got there first. It is that the thing on the application is not functioning as a…
- TTAB Practice Toolkit: Oppositions, Cancellations, and Ex Parte Appeals · Toolkit — The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board decides one question — may this mark be registered — and it decides it in three kinds of case: oppositions to published…
- Stopping Counterfeits at the Border: A Practitioner's Guide to CBP Recordation, Seizures, and Enforcement Programs · Guide — This guide is the operational companion to the counterfeiting article: it assumes you know what a counterfeit mark is and spends its length on how to actually…
- Regulated Healthcare Brand Name Checklist: Screening, FDA Submission, and Trademark Filing · Checklist — Sixteen phases for naming a regulated healthcare product, sequenced so candidates are eliminated before anyone becomes attached to them. Phase zero asks…
- Ex Parte Appeal Checklist: Notice, Briefs, Evidence, and Appeal Routes · Checklist — This checklist takes a refused trademark application from the day the final action issues to the day the appeal route closes, in eleven phases of tickable…
- Trademark Application and Prosecution Toolkit: From Filing Basis to Registration Certificate · Toolkit — This toolkit is a curated tour of everything Marksy publishes on United States trademark prosecution, from the decision about which filing basis to claim…
- Choosing and Clearing an Entity Name, Trade Name, and DBA: A Practitioner's Guide · Guide — This guide fixes the ordering problem at the center of business naming: almost everyone forms the entity first and clears the trademark later, which is exactly…
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