Attorney Peter Lando, host of IP Counsel and partner at the firm of Lando & Anastasi, LLP, welcomes John Welch, Of Counsel with Lando & Anastasi, to discuss important trademark cases and issues of 2011 that may continue well into the new year.  Peter and John discuss the high profile trademark battle between designers, Christian Louboutin and Yves St. Laurent, over a trademark for the color red for shoe soles; the trademark “bullying” report from the U.S. Commerce Department; recent happenings regarding fraud at the USPTO; the latest cases interpreting the trademark statute on dilution by blurring; and the effect of the recent launch of generic TLD’s on trademark owners.

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On this edition of IP Counsel, host Attorney Peter Lando, partner at the firm of Lando & Anastasi, LLP, welcomes John L. Welch, Of Counsel at Lando & Anastasi, LLP, one of the top trademark lawyers in the country.  Peter and John discuss the Bose decision of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and how it has affected trademark owners, practitioners, and the USPTO – as well as questions that remain regarding how to plead and prove fraud in trademark proceedings before the USPTO.

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