Social Media: Personal but also Public
Social Media: Personal but also Public The use of social media in every day life is now becoming the norm. The President is well known for using Twitter. Celebrities have ...
Amazon Brand Registry Trademark Owners Beware
Trademark Owners Beware The Amazon Brand Registry (ABR) provides sellers with additional services to protect their brand and intellectual property, namely the ability to take down infringing or counterfeit listings ...
Local Rules Changes for the Federal District Court of the Eastern District of Virginia
New Local Rules for the Federal District Court Eastern District of Virginia By Thomas Dunlap The Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia has recently (today – October ...
Selecting a Trademark Application, but Which One?
Intent to Use vs Use in Commerce There are two types of federal trademark applications that businesses can apply for – “Actual Use in Commerce” and “Intent to Use” applications. ...
Estate Planning Checklist
When it comes to estate planning, you can never be too careful and detailed. The more detailed and proper your plan is, the more confident you can be that your ...
Common Estate Planning Mistakes
Estate planning is very important. However, most people are quite unaware of the processes involved and how to go about it in general. It’s understandable though, as people don’t like ...
3 Reasons to Have an Estate Plan for Your Business
If you are a business owner, it is important that you have a carefully crafted estate plan for your business. Since we can’t predict the future, you want to know ...
Dunlap, Bennett & Ludwig Expands on its Estate Planning Services
Rhonda A. Miller joins the Northern Virginia offices of DBL Vienna, VA (September 26, 2018) – Dunlap Bennett & Ludwig, a leading corporate and intellectual property law firm with law offices across the ...
DECIDING HOW SIMILAR, SIMILAR IS
A trademark is a creative, unique, identifying symbol that helps the end user to identify a product or service. The symbol can be a word or design, or both. There ...
USPTO Loses and Brunetti gets FUCT
The USPTO’s decision to deny Erik Brunetti the right to register the trademark FUCT was reversed by the Federal Circuit. Why is this news? This cases stretches the frontiers of ...