Trademark Law Alert: Big Changes Coming to U.S. Federal Trademark Practice

The Trademark Modernization Act of 2020 (TMA) was signed into law on December 27, 2020 as part of the recently approved second coronavirus relief bill, a/k/a Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, H.R. 133, 116th Cong., Div. Q , Title II, Subtitle B (2020), available here.    Perhaps because the TMA was passed as part of the […]

Trademark Law Alert: Trademark Modernization Act of 2020 Reimposes a Countrywide Presumption of Irreparable Harm to Aid Parties Enforcing Their Trademark Rights

In our January 11 alert, we reported that the newly enacted second COVID -19 relief and government funding package included trademark act amendments, known as the Trademark Modernization Act of 2020 (“TMA”), which were signed into law on December 27, 2020.    We now dive a little deeper into one of the TMA’s most important […]