back-to-school season insights

Back-to-School Season Insights for Law Firm Owners

If you’re anything like me, you believe that September is an opportunity for a second reset during the year! As summer fades and the days grow shorter, the back-to-school season emerges with a sense of renewed purpose and anticipation. This annual ritual of students returning to their classrooms can also offer valuable insights for law firm owners like you to …

trademark protection for nonprofit lawyers

Protecting the Mission: Trademark Protection For Nonprofit Lawyers

As a nonprofit lawyer, understanding trademark protection is essential for effectively representing any mission-based organization in today’s marketplace. Every business is becoming more aware of the benefits of branding on its business, and the nonprofit and tax-exempt organization is no exception. Trademark protection is an area of intellectual property law that enables nonprofits to protect their names, logos, and slogans …

Trademark Training is Important for Your Legal Practice

Trademark Training is Important for Your Practice

As lawyers we all know the importance of keeping our licenses current, but what we hate are all the boring continuing legal education webinars (CLE) we must endure to renew or bar cards. Often, these sessions are boring and irrelevant to our practice areas, so many of us feel it’s nothing more than checking a box. Truth be told, we, …

How Attorneys Can Find a Mentor

How Attorneys Can Find a Mentor

No attorney is an island. No one is successful by themselves. The truth is it takes a village – whether you work for a firm, work for yourself and have support staff, or have the support of your family and friends, none of us succeeds by ourselves. I’m often asked by other attorneys the best way to find a mentor. …

Trademark lawyers conducting legal networking

Powerful Trademark Business Development Tips – Part 2

In this week’s continuation of our top 10 tips of how to successfully build your trademark practice, we are going to focus on the importance of legal networking and how to plant the seeds, so you can reap the rewards of your business development efforts for years to come. Last week we talked about how you can get started in …

Top 10 Powerful Trademark Practice Development Tips

Top 10 Powerful Trademark Business Development Tips – Part 1

Nearly every business needs a trademark and adding trademark law to your transactional law practice might be the right move for you. Developing a solo practice in any area of law is not for the faint at heart, but after years of working as a trademark attorney, over the next two weeks, I’m going to share with you my best …

OSU federal trademark registration to use THE for clothing

OSU Trademark “THE”: Is there Value?

The Ohio State University (OSU) has been granted what many in our profession believe to be a silly, unenforceable trademark, having received a federal trademark registration for the word “THE” for various clothing items in the field of sports and college athletics. U.S. Registration Number 6763118 was issued to OSU on June 21, 2022. Does this mean that OSU can …

USPTO Sanctions Over 30 Low-Cost DIY Trademark Filing Websites

USPTO Sanctions Over 30 Low-Cost DIY Trademark Filing Websites

USPTO Sanctions Over 30 Low-Cost DIY Trademark Filing Websites On January 25, 2022, the USPTO issued sanctions against Abtach Ltd., 360 Digital Marketing LLC, and Retrocube LLC all believed to be operating out of Pakistan (“Respondents”). These entities were operating under thirty different trade names to file trademark applications for consumers, including Trademark Terminal, Trademark Regal, and US Trademark Solutions, …