On May 20, 2019, the US Supreme Court ruled that a licensor’s rejection of a trademark license in bankruptcy does not terminate the licensee’s right to continue using the licensed mark. Mission Product Holdings Inc. v. Tempnology LLC, 587 US
Franchising is, in essence, a business model built on intellectual property (IP) – it provides a useful forum for commercialising IP. Franchisors gain by sharing use of their IP (including trade marks, patents, designs, copyright materials, know-how and/or
What happens when an IP licence agreement is terminated? The obvious answer would of course be that the licence terminates too. However, as the latest instalment in an ongoing saga involving the well-known PINK LADY brand of apples reminds us,
The use of the pop singer Rihanna’s image on T-shirts sold by Topshop has been found to amount to the English tort of passing off. 
The T-shirts went on sale in March 2012 and bore a photograph of Rihanna taken
Last Thursday, a panel of the Fifth Circuit affirmed a ruling from the Northern District of Texas partially enjoining a Texas company’s sale of ceremonial paddles decorated with the unlicensed insignia of 32 fraternities and sororities. In the lower court,
On August 21, Fulbright IP attorney Christopher Kindel presented at the Austin Intellectual Property Law Association luncheon.
Discussing “From Keywords to Naked Licensing,” Kindel gave an update on notable trademark law developments and trends.
To view his presentation, visit the
Creative Commons, a “global nonprofit organization dedicated to the sharing and reusing of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools,” has published the second draft of its Creative Commons licenses (the “CC Suite”), dubbed “4.0.” The CC Suite is