ARE Trademark Law Alert:
US Court of Appeals Finds Lanham Act Prohibition of Registration of Disparaging Trademarks to Be Unconstitutional

(December 23, 2015). On Tuesday, December 22, 2015, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued its much awaited en banc decision in the In re Tam case, and found the Lanham Act’s prohibition against the registration of “disparaging” trademarks to be a violation of the US Constitution’s First Amendment. This case arose […]

ARE Patent Law Alert: In Another Win For Firm’s IPR Team, PTAB Confirms its Authority to Deny Untimely Challenges to the Real Party in Interest

Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein, LLP attorneys successfully defended against a challenge to the named real party in interest (“RPI”) in a series of inter partes review (“IPR”) proceedings brought by Petitioner First Quality Baby Products, LLC against Patent Owner Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.’s 8,747,379 B2: IPR2014-01021, -01023, and -01024. In its decision issued on July 16, 2015, […]