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If you own, have applied for, or are preparing to apply for federal registration of a trademark, you might be wondering whether there are any extensions to responses or renewal deadlines. The short answer is no, the Trademark Office has not extended filing dates. In short, it’s pretty much business as usual at the Trademark Office. But this does not…
Years of persistence by the Hogan administration have finally paid off, resulting in a grant of $125 million of federal funding through the Infrastructure for Rebuilding America Grant Program (INFRA) administered by the U.S. Department of Transportation. This funding...
Thirty years ago, at 12:04 AM on Good Friday, March 24, 1989, the oil tanker EXXON VALDEZ ran aground on Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound in Alaska. Underwater rocks tore huge holes in eight of the single-hull tanks holding crude oil. As a result, the tanker spilled 10.8 million gallons of oil into the Sound and “oiled” 1300 miles…
In today’s global economy, businesses must be attuned not only to their trademark protections and rights in the United States, but also to protecting their trademarks in foreign countries. Through the Paris Convention and the Madrid Protocol, there are international processes of seeking and receiving international trademark protection. This blog discusses those methods and when and why each may be…
Amid tariff disputes, political gridlock, and a government shutdown, the promise and optimism of the technology that will be on display at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) next week in Las Vegas is a welcome relief. Here’s a preview of CES 2019 and the most interesting technologies, conferences, and speakers on the schedule. 5G. The biggest buzz is likely to…
For years, the Port of Baltimore has been at a major competitive disadvantage due to the inability to stack shipping containers two high on trains heading out of the City (a practice known as double-stacking). Despite dredging a 50-foot channel and having a large public-private investment in the Seagirt Marine Terminal to provide a 50-foot berth and super-sized Panamax container…
This memo gives employers and businesses the highlights of the Maryland Healthy Working Families Act (“Act”) recently passed by the Maryland Legislature requiring earned paid sick and safe leave. The Act is effective as of February 11, 2018. It applies to employers who have 15 or more employees. What Is Sick and Safe Leave? Sick and safe leave means leave…
This is the third installment of a three-part blog post series about governments fighting with commercial entities over trademarks. At the beginning of 2017, all three were embroiled in litigation in one or more of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO), the federal courts, or a state court. As 2017 ends, only one of the legal fights is over.…
Update: Issues in P&G Proxy Contest Not Resolved The proxy contest between Procter & Gamble and Nelson Peltz is not over, either literally or on Wall Street. The shareholder vote two weeks ago is so close that the outcome remains uncertain. P&G management declared victory after the vote based on its own “preliminary estimates” of the voting results. Not so…
A version of this blog post was published as a column in The Daily Record. Businesses are often the unintended victims of scams, including advanced fee scams and fake domain name scams, many of which involve the misappropriation or “spoofing” of a legitimate business’s identity and reputation to entice victims. Business reputations and goodwill can be irreparably harmed as a…