This blog is the twelfth installment in Finkel Law Group’s ongoing trademark law series. In earlier articles, we explored how to monetize trademarks through licensing and assignment. In this article, we examine a lesser-known but increasingly valuable strategy: Using your trademarks as collateral to secure financing. If your business owns one or more valuable trademarks, […]

This blog on Selling and Assigning Trademarks is the eleventh installment in Finkel Law Group’s trademark law series. In Blog 10, we examined how your company can license its trademarks to generate revenue while retaining ownership and control of your brand.  In this blog, we focus on a different monetization strategy – selling trademarks outright […]

In Westmont Living, Inc. v. Retirement Unlimited, Inc., the U.S. Court of Appeal for the Fourth Circuit vacated a judgment of the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia because the lower court did not address the parties’ competitive marketing, the locations from which they solicit and draw their customers, the scope of […]

This is the ninth blog in Finkel Law Group’s ongoing trademark law series. Previous blogs have explored how to secure, register and enforce trademark rights through cease and desist letters, litigation, and administrative proceedings. This blog shifts focus to a foundational yet often overlooked aspect of trademark protection: How your company’s use of its mark—in […]

This blog is the eighth in a series that Finkel Law Group is publishing to provide our readers with a broad overview of trademark law in the United States.  Protecting your company’s trademarks doesn’t always require litigation in federal court.  The U.S. Trademark Office provides an administrative process for challenging pending trademark applications and existing […]