Author Archives: John DiGiacomo

The Trademark Counterfeiting Act imposes criminal penalties for selling goods with counterfeit marks. Here’s what the law covers and how it’s enforced.

A trademark is only as strong as how you use and protect it. Here are proven strategies to maximize the legal strength and commercial value of your trademark.

The USPTO cancelled over 5,500 trademark applications tied to a low-cost online filing scam. Here’s how it worked and how to protect yourself from similar fraud.

Famous trademarks get stronger protection against dilution than ordinary marks. Here’s what makes a trademark famous and how to prove fame in litigation.

The right-to-repair movement has been in the news lately. Right-to-repair advocates argue that, if you buy a product, you should be allowed to repair it if it becomes nonfunctional. Further, companies should be required to provide manuals, instructions and tools — particularly software tools — that make repair possible. Companies are resistant to complying with […]

New lawsuits under California’s Unruh Act may face hurdles in light of a recent California Court of Appeals ruling, which requires a bona fide interest to use the website that is the subject matter of the lawsuit. In the matter of Thurston v. Omni Hotels Management Corp., the California Court of Appeals held that plaintiffs […]

The FCC issued a new Cybersecurity Safeguard Rule affecting telecommunications companies. Revision Legal’s internet attorneys explain the new requirements and business compliance obligations.

The answer depends on how the trade secret became publicly disclosed. As defined legally, a trade secret is any sort of information that has commercial value from the fact that the information is secret. The law protects trade secrets. However, if the information becomes known publicly through disclosure, then, generally, the status of the information […]

In general, a trade secret is only legally protectable as long as the information is kept secret. Under both federal and state law, a trade secret is generally defined as any information from which commercial value is derived from the fact that the information is secret. Information as simple as customer or vendor lists can […]

The Trademark Modernization Act created new tools for removing fraudulent and unused trademarks from the register. Here’s what the law changed.