NFLの第55回スーパーボウルは、2021年2月7日にフロリダ州のタンパベイで行われ、ペイトリオッツから移籍したバッカニアーズのトムブレィディQBらの活躍で、マホームQBを中心とするチーフスに対して快勝(31－9)しています。バッカニアーズのディフェンスがチーフスのオフェンスラインを圧倒した面がありました。その裏方としてICE/HSI(Homeland Security Investigation)のOperationがあります。
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2020 was a year like no other, so you’d be forgiven if the year’s biggest headlines in trademark law didn’t quite catch your attention. In 2020, the US Supreme Court shaped trademark jurisprudence through a trio of notable decisions. A pandemic and shelter-in-place orders pushed more consumers to virtual marketplaces, forcing brand owners, and the courts, to take a renewed look at counterfeiting and online enforcement.
情報源: Trademarks in the 2020 IP Law Year in Review
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A Utah man is suing one of the world’s biggest music stars, Taylor Swift, for trademark infringement. Caption: KUTV: Jim Spiewak reports Ken Bretschneider, the founder and CEO of Evermore Park, claims Swift is using a brand he’s spent millions building on her new album. Evermore Park started about three years ago as an experience and event park in Pleasant Grove, Utah. Ken Bretschneider, the founder and CEO of Evermore Park, in a 2News interview in 2018. (Photo: KUTV File)
情報源: Founder of Utah’s Evermore fantasy park sues Taylor Swift for trademark infringement | KUTV
テイラー・スウィフトが、2020年12月にアルバム『エヴァーモア』をリリースした際、米ユタ州のテーマパーク【エヴァーモア・パーク】が商標を侵害したとしてテイラー側を訴えたことがわかった。
情報源: テイラー・スウィフト、最新ALのタイトルを巡り米ユタ州のテーマパークに訴えられる（Billboard JAPAN） – Yahoo!ニュース
米国商標 法人名 日本国内では法人には登記の際に定めた名称があり、法人としての活動にはその名称が使用されます。法人の名称には、その法人格を示す「株式会社」や「合同会社」などの文字も使用されます。日本企業や日本の社団が米国 …
The Seventh Circuit recently reversed a district court’s dismissal of a class action false advertising complaint, holding that an ingredient list’s disclosure of components other than parmesan cheese did not foreclose the possibility of reasonable consumers being deceived by a “100% Grated Parmesan Cheese” front label claim.
情報源: Seventh Circuit Sides with Plaintiffs in Parmesan Cheese Claims
Signed into law on December 28, the voluminous Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 makes major changes to American intellectual property laws via its inclusion of the Trademark Modernization Act of 2020 (TM Act); the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act of 2020 (CASE Act); and an amendment to Title 18 of the United States Code that adds Section 2319C titled “Illicit digital transmission services.”
H. R. 2426（pdf）
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If you are considering filing a new trademark application or maintaining an existing registration, you may want to file your submission before the end of 2020. The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will increase its fees for trademark applications, post-registration maintenance filings, and certain filings with the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB).Continue Reading
情報源: Substantial Increase in US Trademark Fees Will Ring in New Year 2021 | McCarter & English, LLP
WhatsApp Inc. has filed an opposition to WhatsPay doing business as OmegaSoft Technology LLC’s proposed “WHATSPAY” trademark and accompanying design. After extending its deadline to file the opposition, WhatsApp contended that the filing before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) is timely.The opposition stated that OmegaSoft is a South Carolina company. It allegedly filed an application in January, seeking to use its WHATSPAY trademark for “downloadable computer software for use as an electronic wallet.”
情報源: WhatsApp Opposes WhatsPay Trademark – Tech
Opposition
Number: 91265489 Filing Date: 10/19/2020
Status: Pending Status Date: 10/19/2020
ESTTA Tracking number: ESTTA1089623
Grounds for Opposition
Priority and likelihood of confusion Trademark Act Section 2(d)
No use of mark in commerce before application or amendment to allege use was filed Trademark Act Sections 1(a) and (c)
False suggestion of a connection with persons,living or dead, institutions, beliefs, or national symbols, or brings them into contempt, or disrepute Trademark Act Section 2(a)
