The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today announced that it will be launching a special category of its Patents for Humanity Program for inventions that address the COVID-19 pandemic. This new award category will provide business incentives for patent applicants, holders, and licensees whose inventions track, prevent, diagnose, or treat COVID-19.
https://www.uspto.gov/ip-policy/patent-policy/patents-humanity
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has released newly redesigned trademark basics webpages on the USPTO website.
Learn trademark basics like:
“It’s important to have a strong trademark that is inherently distinctive. This means your trademark quickly and clearly identifies you as the source of your goods or services. The stronger your trademark is, the more easily you can prevent others from using it without your permission…”
“Strong trademarks are suggestive, fanciful, or arbitrary. Weak trademarks are descriptive or generic…”
If you are interested to see lawyers argue over who owns the words SPIN and SPINNING, read on…
https://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/v?pno=92076463&pty=CAN&eno=1
(Image courtesy of One Peloton)
This Zoom mishap is cute.
“I’m here live, I’m not a cat,” says lawyer after Zoom filter mishap
“I can see that,” responds judge pic.twitter.com/HclKlAUwbM
— Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley) February 9, 2021