Has the iPad become so synonymous with the idea of a tablet that all tablets can simply be referred to as "iPads"? According to the AP, Apple's iPad could join thermos, aspirin, and heroin in becoming ...

Generic terms—those words that actually name a product or service—are ineligible for trademark protection under current United States trademark law. The United States Patent and Trademark Office ...

Editor’s note: This post was originally published on March 16, 2020. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office v. Booking.com raises the question whether a business can create a registrable trademark by ...

Many online businesses are known and referred to by a web address comprising a top-level domain (TLD) like ".com" and a second-level domain (SLD), which is the portion of the address immediately ...

Oscar Wilde once observed “there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about”. True, he was commenting on late nineteenth century London society, ...

Even if a generic.com trademark owner sued a competitor whose domain name incorporated the generic term and were able to show consumer confusion, this exception could shield the competitor from ...

“The question becomes, if the addition of a TLD to a generic term cannot create a protectable trademark, who decides whether the term preceding the TLD is generic?” On November 8, the U.S. Supreme ...