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Amazon Strengthens Brand Protection for Trademark Owners: Key Updates in 2025

As trademark infringement and counterfeit sales continue to disrupt legitimate business on Amazon, Amazon has developed and expanded its intellectual property enforcement tools. In 2025, Amazon introduced enhancements to its Brand Registry platform to provide trademark owners with more control over their product listings, greater visibility into unauthorized sellers, and more efficient mechanisms for addressing …

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2025 Patent Filing Costs Rise: USPTO Fee Update and Response Strategies

Introduction In January 2025, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) implemented a broad set of fee increases and structural adjustments intended to address rising operational costs and encourage more efficient patent prosecution. These changes affect nearly every stage of the patent lifecycle, from initial patent application filings to subsequent patent application filings and …

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Navigating Copyright Across Borders: How U.S. Registration Strengthens Global Protection

In an increasingly interconnected world, authors and rights holders must understand how their copyrights are treated beyond U.S. borders. Despite the global nature of creative content distribution, international copyright law remains fundamentally territorial, leading to uncertainty over how far U.S. copyright protections extend. While not mandatory, registering a work with the U.S. Copyright Office (USCO) …

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Part 3: Key Takeaways from Claim Examples in the 2024 AI Patent Eligibility Guidance

Part 3 This is the third post in a 3-part series. Below, we describe Example 49 which focuses on using AI to assist with a medical treatment. Example 49. Fibrosis Treatment Key Takeaway for Claim 1: Example 49, Claim 1 includes a likely split-actor issue, because the entities collecting the sample, identifying the high risk/weighted …

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Get Ready for Changes to USPTO Trademark Proceedings and Fees in January 2025

Effective January 18, 2025, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) will update some of its trademark proceedings and fees.  The changes aim to provide the USPTO with the additional funding needed to continue to improve its operations and streamline its services, including reducing processing delays, improving examination, enhancing IT systems, and addressing the …

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Part 2: Key Takeaways from Claim Examples in the 2024 AI Patent Eligibility Guidance

This is the second post in a 3-part series. Example 48 is described below, which is directed to analyzing speech signals and separating desired speech from extraneous or background speech using AI. Example 48. Speech Separation Key Takeaway for Claim 1: Example 48, Claim 1 could be interpreted as receiving spoken audio, and deriving/calculating data …

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Key Takeaways from Claim Examples in the 2024 AI Patent Eligibility Guidance: A 3-Part Series

Part 1 On July 17, 2024, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (the Office) released new guidance on subject matter eligibility, entitled “The 2024 Patent Subject Matter Eligibility Guidance Update Including on Artificial Intelligence” (2024 AI SME Update). The 2024 AI SME Update is a lifeline for patent prosecutors prosecuting AI patent applications because it …

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Oh, My God (OMG)! – Scandalous Trademarks in Canada (and the US)

“Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.”- O Wilde In crafting Valley of Mother of God Gin, the founders of Foxglove Spirits, Malcolm Roberts and Shelly Perry, drew inspiration from the lush forests and fields surrounding their Ontario farm property.    They did not, however, anticipate the wildfire of legal obstacles that combusted when they filed …

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Amazon’s Patent Enforcement Program Establishes Personal Jurisdiction

The Amazon Patent Evaluation Express (APEX) program offers patent owners a cost-effective way to address claims that third-party product listings are infringing on their utility patents. Under the APEX program, a third-party arbitrator assesses whether a product available on Amazon.com infringes a utility patent, leading to the removal of the listing if the article determines …

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Terminal Disclaimer Rule Proposed to Balance Innovation and Competition

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) periodically evaluates the delicate balance of the U.S. patent system to protect innovation without excessively stifling competition. U.S. patents give patent owners the exclusive right to exclude others from making, using, selling, or importing the claimed invention typically for 20 years; however, the risk of patent infringement …

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