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12/25/2023

Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays!

06/08/2023

The Supreme Court let us know that you can take a trademark joke too far:

Justice Kagan wrote the opinion for a unanimous Supreme Court reversing explaining that you can take a trademark-parody joke too far in JACK DANIEL’S PROPERTIES, INC., PETITIONER v. VIP PRODUCTS LLC. VIP Products had marketed and sold a dog-chew toy with the mark "Bad Spaniels" using much of the s...

01/02/2022

Happy New Year!

11/25/2021

Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃🍁🍽

02/02/2021

https://www.gundersen-law.com/post/eu-us-privacy-shield-struck-down

This past July, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) invalidated the Privacy Shield regime that the United States had negotiated with the EU to provide a mechanism for validity transferring personal data from the European Union to the United States. The Privacy Shield was a certificatio...

12/25/2020

Merry Christmas!

12/10/2020

https://www.gundersen-law.com/post/gunnar-gundersen-appointed-to-us-commission-on-civil-rights-california-advisory-committee

G + G is proud to announce that managing partner, Gunnar Gundersen, has been appointed by the United States Commission on Civil Rights to its California Advisory Committee. Gunnar has served the United States in the past working for US Senator Gordon Smith (Oregon) and as a law clerk to Judge Diarmu...

11/27/2020

Happy Thanksgiving!

11/23/2020

https://www.gundersen-law.com/post/g-g-represents-intellectual-property-owners-association-at-wipo-hosted-40th-sccr-session

On Monday through Friday of last week, on behalf of IPO, Copyright and Anti-Piracy Committee member, Gunnar Gundersen (Gundersen & Gundersen LLP) attended the 40th Session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights, which was hosted by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIP...

09/20/2020

In honor of RBG, G + G is sharing this post about her most recent trademark opinion, USPTO v. Booking.com

In United States Patent and Trademark Office v. Booking.com B. V., the Supreme Court considered whether the USPTO’s proposed practice of rejecting any trademark filing that combines a generic term with a generic top-level domain name should be rejected under the legal reasoning of Rubber Glove Mfg...

05/18/2020

https://www.gundersen-law.com/post/states-are-not-authors-when-they-produce-annotated-codes

In Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, Inc., the Supreme Court applied the government-edicts doctrine to deny Georgia a copyright in the Official Code of Georgia Annotated ("OCGA"). The OCGA states that it is "Published Under Authority of the State" and it was produced by LexisNexis Group through its Ma...

05/15/2020

https://www.gundersen-law.com/post/willfulness-not-required-for-profits-in-trademark-infringement

In Romag Fasteners, Inc. v. Fossil, Inc., the Supreme Court held that a plaintiff in a trademark-infringement suit does not need to prove willfulness to recover the defendant's profits. In Romag, Fossil had entered into an agreement with Romag to use its snap fasteners with Fossil handbags and other...