Common Mistakes to Avoid When Naming a Business
Starting a business is exciting, as is picking out a name (or, in legal terms, a trademark) for your new startup. The possibilities may seem endless, or you may have one specific name that you have your heart set on ...
Social Media as a Terrorist Platform? #ISIS #TwitterTerror
Entrepreneurs and social media businesses beware! If your communications platform is used to support terrorism, you could potentially be held liable. Twitter may be learning that lesson the hard way in light of a recent lawsuit filed against the social ...
Britain’s High Court: No Break for Nestle
Nestle Cannot Trademark the Shape of the Kit Kat Bar Britain’s High Court did not give Nestle a break. The court ruled that Nestle cannot trademark the “shape of a four finger chocolate coated wafer” that is reflected in the ...
Accountability Partners
Take the guesswork out of legal fees with our new program, Accountability Partners (AP). AP puts YOU in the driver’s seat! Every month, your AP legal advisor will schedule a consultation to listen to and help you evaluate your priorities ...
Pamela Gavin Elected as NAWBO Board Member
We are please to announce that Pamela Gavin has been elected as a member in the National Association of Women Business Owner's Board of Directors for 2015-2016! ...
Popularity of gTLDs
The volume of registrations in new gTLDs indicates that they are generating sustained interest on the part of consumers and brand owners. A review of the ten most-registered gTLDs to date provides some insight into the popularity of gTLDs:[1] .xyz, ...
Forbes Legal Black Book!
We are pleased to announce that Gavin Law Offices has been chosen by Forbes as a member of the Legal Black Book for 2015/2016! The Forbes Legal Black Book is comprised of "elite law firms recognized for providing critical legal ...
U.S. Trade Representative’s 2014 Notorious Markets Report Includes Domain Name Registrars
The U.S. Trade Representative recently released its 2014 Notorious Markets report identifying offline and online markets that deal in infringing goods or sustain global piracy and counterfeiting. For the first time, the Notorious Markets report identifies Internet domain name registrars ...
Brand Protection in the New gTLD Era
Take a moment and pull up your internet history from the last week. Look at the domain names listed in the history report. What do these websites have in common? Most sites have similar domain name configurations. Meme.com. News.net. Company.org ...
A Likelihood of Preclusion
An eighteen-year dispute between B&B Hardware Inc. (B&B) and Hargis Industries Inc. (Hargis) has culminated in the first substantive trademark case[1] to be heard by the United States Supreme Court in a decade.[2] At issue is the relationship between the ...
Pamela Gavin Selected as Virginia’s Legal Elite!
Pamela Gavin has been selected by her peers as a member of Virginia's Legal Elite in the Intellectual Property category for 2014! ...
Protecting Your Trademarks in the New Age of Domains Names
As you may know, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) recently decided to open up more than 1,000 domains outside of the .com, .net, and .biz variety. Many new domains are now available and more are coming ...
