USPTO Cancels More than 52,000 Fraudulently Prosecuted Trademark Records

Originally published on the Privacy and IP Law Blog by Neal & McDevitt Partner Christina Frangiosa, on Sept. 15, 2025. The USPTO recently announced that, on August 6, 2025, it terminated over *52,000* pending applications and issued registrations handled by a foreign filing firm, Shenzhen Seller Growth Network Tech, and its affiliates (collectively “Seller Growth” or “Respondents“) [...]

By |2025-09-18T15:02:53-05:00September 16th, 2025|Branding, Intellectual Property, Miscellaneous, Trademarks, United States Patent and Trademark Office|Comments Off on USPTO Cancels More than 52,000 Fraudulently Prosecuted Trademark Records

Fair Use and Transformativeness – Unpacking Warhol v. Goldsmith

Is Andy Warhol’s Orange Prince transformative and non-infringing? The copyright bar and much of the  art world has been anxiously awaiting the answer to this question since the Supreme Court decided to take up the matter.   Apparently, Justices Kagan and Roberts were waiting for the same thing. Background In 1984, Andy Warhol created for Vanity [...]

By |2023-06-09T12:31:00-05:00May 26th, 2023|Copyright, Intellectual Property, Licesnsing, Name Image Likeness, Right of Publicity|Comments Off on Fair Use and Transformativeness – Unpacking Warhol v. Goldsmith
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