Dressed to Travel
FishBits: Mini Article Volume 23, Issue 19
Trademarks travel. In many ways, that’s one of the primary purposes of a trademark—to distribute the reputation of the brand’s owner widely and efficiently. It is for this reason that trademark registrations issued by the U.S. Trademark Office are entitled to nationwide rights.
Ready Attorney One
Fish Tank: Newsletter Volume 23, Issue 15
The announcement of Apple’s new spatial computing headset (available early 2024) and recent news of an attorney affidavit admitting reliance on a fake court case produced by ChatGPT together conjure a strange mix of reactions.
Supreme Court to VIP: Bad Spaniels, Bad.
Fish Tank: Newsletter Volume 23, Issue 13
In a rare unanimous decision, the Supreme Court sided with Jack Daniel’s Properties, reversing the Ninth Circuit decision that found VIP Products’ dog chew toy, a non-infringing parody of the trademark rights Jack Daniel’s holds in its name, JACK DANIEL’S, OLD NO. 7, the label, and bottle design.
AI Stands for … Art Infringers?
FishBits: Mini Article Volume 23, Issue 4
Artificial Intelligence tools have been all the rage in recent months. From ChatGPT to Midjourney, these tools take different forms but the premise is the same: a user enters a prompt in text form, and the AI tool creates a response in text-form or image.
Bot vs. Man, A Holiday Bout For Rights
Fish Tank: Newsletter Volume 23, Issue 1
Unlike the Matrix, Star Wars, and Austin Powers, respectively, Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer, or ChatGPT, is not a robot in disguise or a bot of science fiction. We, the users, provide prompts in text form, and ChatGPT converses in response to the prompts.
LUKA DONCIC is Owned by His Mom. Maybe.
FishBits: Mini Article Volume 22, Issue 21
Should a 19-year old’s consent to their NIL rights be binding as they mature? Should unilateral revocation of NIL rights be permitted?
THE College Football Trademark to End All Trademarks… Or Not
Fish Tank: Newsletter Volume 22, Issue 18
College football’s week zero [yes, zero] has come and gone without any wild trademark registrations from the sport.
For trademark friendly-college football fans, the biggest news of the season came from Columbus, Ohio.
Trademark attorney Alexander JSW Johnson joins Fishman Stewart
Intellectual property law firm Fishman Stewart, PLLC, is pleased to welcome Alexander JSW Johnson as an associate trademark attorney. Johnson will focus his practice on intellectual property litigation and dispute resolution, trademarks, copyrights and IP consulting, and transactional and e-commerce services across multiple industries.