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How do I enforce my intellectual property rights ?

Getting your mark registered 1st is important. Having a registered mark in a sovereign nation before anyone else is a great advantage.

Several Key Issues

Be the first to register. Obtain a certificate of trademark registration from a nation that is part of WIPO. WIPO Welcomed Solomon Islands as 192nd Member State April 9, 2019
Be the first to use your TM and ® Symbol
Be the first to have a National or Sovereign Trademark.
Make sure your trademark is online and being commercially used before others.

Inventors Group to U.S. Courts Committee: Don’t be Duped by Corporate Call for Litigation Funding Transparency October 10, 2024
The recently-formed Inventors Defense Alliance (IDA) sent a letter yesterday to the Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure in the Administrative Office of the United States Courts urging it not to heed the call of a letter sent to the Committee last week by 124 large companies to implement a uniform process on disclosure […]
Eileen McDermott
A Better Way to RESTORE Injunctive Relief? The Federal Circuit Had the Answer October 10, 2024
The ongoing debate over the nearly two-decades long battle to restore injunctive relief to prevailing patent owners is no doubt a vigorous one. Two different camps within the pro-strong-patent rights community have emerged. One camp consists of those backed by and/or supporting corporate innovators. The other camp consists of those supporting small, independent innovators.
Jeffrey Depp
German Court Says Non-Commercial AI Training Data Meets Scientific Research Exception to Copyright Infringement October 10, 2024
In a landmark judgment with far reaching ramifications, a German court recently held that the copying of images by Large-scale Artificial Intelligence Open Network (LAION) - a nonprofit organization that provides datasets, tools and models to liberate machine learning research – did not infringe copyright law. The Kneschke v. LAION case, heard by the Hamburg […]
Ronak Kalhor-Witzel
USPTO Scraps Proposal to Allow Non-Registered Practitioners as Lead Counsel in Final Rule on Expanding PTAB Practice Opportunities October 9, 2024
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced today that it has finalized a proposed rule expanding opportunities to practice before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). After considering comments received, the final rule will allow parties to proceed without separate backup counsel contingent upon a showing of good cause. However, the final rule […]
Eileen McDermott
The Dark Side of Cannabis Edibles: How Fake Packaging Can Mislead Consumers and Harm Children October 9, 2024
As more states legalize recreational marijuana, the incidence of children accidentally ingesting cannabis edibles has also risen dramatically. According to Pediatrics, a journal published by the American Academy of Pediatrics, the number of children under six years old who have consumed cannabis products surged by 1,375% from 2017 to 2021. See Marit S. Tweet et […]
Deborah (Bea) Swedlow
Understanding IP Matters: Priceline.com Inventor, James Jorasch, Shares His Secret for Working Smarter October 9, 2024
Business inventor James Jorasch says identifying inventions is something that everyone can achieve with a little training. On the premiere episode of Season 4 of the podcast Understanding IP Matters (UIPM), he discusses what companies need to do to identify untapped inventions they and their employees are overlooking. Jorasch is the founder of Science House, an […]
Drew Berweger
Patents, Trade Secrets and AI with WIPO’s András Jókúti | IPWatchdog Unleashed October 8, 2024
András Jókúti is an intellectual property lawyer, former Director-General for Legal Affairs of the Hungarian Intellectual Property Office, and he is a former Fulbright Scholar. Since January 2022, András has served as the Director of the Patent and Technology Law Division at World Intellectual Property Organization. András came to the United States last week to […]
Gene Quinn
CAFC Says District Court Erred in Dismissing AlexSam’s ‘Well-Pled’ Patent Infringement Claim October 8, 2024
Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) issued a precedential opinion affirming-in-part, vacating-in-part, and remanding a district court’s dismissal of a patent infringement complaint filed by AlexSam, Inc. against Aetna, Inc. AlexSam’s complaint alleged that Aetna had marketed Mastercard and VISA products that directly and indirectly infringed upon its Patent No. […]
Lucas Thrun
SCOTUS Denies Challenges to Section 101 Test, Trademark Domicile Rules and Obviousness-Type Double-Patenting Analysis October 8, 2024
On October 7, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an order list that included cert denials for several intellectual property cases that were presented to the nation’s highest court. In rendering those denials, the Supreme Court leaves in place an appellate ruling invalidating patents claiming improvements to computer networking technologies under Section 101’s abstract idea jurisprudence. […]
Steve Brachmann
After Loper Bright, the USPTO Should Reopen the Comment Period for FY 2025-2029 Patent Fees October 7, 2024
On April 3, 2024, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published a 266-page Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) on “Setting and Adjusting Patent Fees during Fiscal Year 2025” (89 FR 23226), with proposed selective and in some cases extraordinary increases in fees for the fiscal years 2025-2029. These proposed increases in fees for […]
Sherry Knowles

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