Weintraub Trademark attorneys quite literally protect the good names of our clients by registering trademarks, providing strategic counseling, protecting our clients’ trademarks from infringement, defending our clients’ trademarks when challenged, and handling complex litigation matters.
We understand that a client’s brand and the associated goodwill can often be their most valuable assets. Accordingly, our attorneys counsel clients on a variety of trademark issues from the creation of the brand, including trademark searches, clearance, and registration, through maintenance of the brand, including enforcement of trademark rights and maintenance of USPTO registrations. The Weintraub Trademark group manages trademark portfolios across the globe in numerous industries including finance, entertainment, hospitality, agriculture, technology, construction, healthcare, and many more.
In addition to assisting with creation, registration, and policing of our clients’ trademarks, our team includes skilled litigators with extensive experience in litigating trademark infringement, dilution, and related unfair competition claims. Our Trademark group also handles proceedings, such as oppositions and cancellation proceedings, before the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB).
Weintraub Tobin is pleased to announce that Weintraub has been recognized as the Top Trademark Law Firm and attorneys Scott Hervey and Josh Escovedo have been named Top Trademark authors in the 2023 JD Supra Readers’ Choice Awards. The Readers’ Choice Awards recognize authors and firms across 31 cross-industry topics…
Sonya Sorich writes in the Sacramento Business Journal that a ruling by the El Dorado County Superior Court has settled a long-running trademark dispute between Sacramento-area restaurants in favor of Weintraub client Friends with Benedicts Mimosa House LLC. Early Morning, Inc., which operates the Mimosa House chain, had sued Friends…
SAN DIEGO (March 31, 2015) – Weintraub Tobin, one of California’s leading, full service law firms, is pleased to announce that intellectual property attorney Eric Caligiuri has joined the firm’s San Diego office as Of Counsel. Caligiuri is the second attorney to jump to the firm from Covington & Burling…
Download: WTWB Merger Press Release FINAL.pdf Weintraub Tobin Chediak Coleman Grodin Law Corporation and Waldron & Bragg, a professional corporation, have jointly announced the merger of their business law and litigation firms. The combined firm will be named Weintraub Tobin Chediak Coleman Grodin and have offices in Sacramento, Calif., San…
For a third year in a row, Weintraub Tobin is working to raise funds for cardiovascular diseases and stroke by partaking in the American Heart Association Heart Walk on Saturday, September 21 at William Land Park. Our attorneys and staff work hard during the summer months to gear up for…
In this episode of The Briefing by the IP Law Blog, Scott Hervey and Josh Escovedo discuss Ohio State University’s trademark registration for the word THE. Watch this episode on the Weintraub YouTube channel here. Read more about this case on the IP Law Blog here. Listen to this podcast episode here:
In this week’s episode of The Briefing by the IP Law Blog, Scott Hervey and Josh Escovedo discuss the Ninth Circuit Ruling on the trademark aspects of Dr. Seuss “mashups.” They also provide a recap of last week’s episode, which covers the copyright aspects of the case. Watch the video of this episode on the Weintraub…
In this bonus episode of the Briefing by the IP Law Blog, Scott Hervey and Josh Escovedo discuss the stringent trademark enforcement protection for Olympic symbols, words, and phrases as well as recent lawsuits that have reinforced that protection. Watch this episode on the Weintraub YouTube channel here. Listen to this podcast episode…
In this week’s episode of The Briefing by The IP Law Blog, attorneys Scott Hervey and Josh Escovedo discuss the trademark litigation between Nike and a custom shoe maker, MSCHF (pronounced “Mischief”). In Nike Inc. v MSCHF Product Studio, Inc., Nike sued MSCHF over unauthorized versions of the Nike Air…
In this week’s episode, Scott Hervey and Josh Escovedo discuss the complex process of clearing titles for Film and Television. They cover recent high-stakes litigation around entertainment titles, including Stouffer v. National Geographic Partners LLC, Jon Astor-White v. Daniel Strong (Empire), and the “Honey Badger” case. Watch this episode on the…
5-4 Opinion Offers Judicial Workaround by Giving More Oversight to the USPTO Director In U.S. v. Arthrex, case number 19-1434; Smith & Nephew v. Arthrex, case number 19-1452; and Arthrex v. Smith & Nephew, case number 19-1458, the Supreme Court of the United States recently held that Patent Trial and…
I’m experiencing déjà vu. I wrote about a similar topic prior to Allegiant Air becoming the official sponsor of the Las Vegas stadium that the Raiders now call home. In fact, I covered the topic at a time when Allegiant Air claimed that it was not involved in any negotiations…
Hard seltzer first hit the marketplace about five years ago and rapidly grew in popularity with sales exceeding $4.5 billion in 2020. Wanting to ride the wave of success, many companies have introduced hard seltzers into this now crowded space. But what is a hard seltzer? Is it a form…
If you pay much attention to sneakers, you might know that the agreement between Nike and the Bryant Estate for Nike’s line of Kobe sneakers recently expired. Although Kobe started his career with Adidas, he changed to Nike in 2003, and he stayed there for the rest of his life.…
The Ninth Circuit recently considered an issue of first impression: What standard of review does an appellate court apply when reviewing a district court’s grant of summary judgment in a trademark infringement case on the equitable basis of the unclean hands doctrine. The Ninth Circuit faced this issue in the…
While Shakespeare may have wondered “what is in a name?”, the executives at Peloton believe that the trademark SPIN is of great importance. Last month (February, 2021), Peloton filed petitions to cancel the trademarks SPIN and SPINNING for physical fitness instruction and for stationary exercise bicycles on the grounds that…
