Color can be a powerful tool for brand recognition, but securing trademark protection for a color mark involves unique legal and evidentiary challenges. Recent decisions from the Federal Circuit and ...
From Palette to Protection: When Does Color Function as a Trademark? While companies like UPS have successfully used color as a trademark, securing trademark protection for a color can be challenging.
In refusing registration of the color green for “chloroprene medical examination gloves,” the Federal Circuit adopted — for the first time — a legal test for genericness of color marks. The decision ...
A Hungarian pharmaceutical company filed a trademark application for a colour/figurative use of the word ‘MultiKid’ with a list of goods, including in class 5 for pharmaceutical and veterinary ...
This is an Insight article, written by a selected contributor as part of WTR's co-published content. Read more on Insight It is recognised across various jurisdictions around the world that a colour, ...
When the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit hears oral arguments later this month in shoe designer Christian Louboutin’s appeal to protect his trademark on red lacquered soles, opens new tab, ...