Sara Landry’s name sits on hard-techno releases, and HEKATE Records is the label she built to put out her music and work by other artists. Her trademark company now says a former management firm kept using both names after the relationship ended, as if it still had authority to act for her. The case turns … Read more
By the time Nvidia and two Arizona software companies told a Texas federal court on September 25, 2026 that they had resolved their trademark fight, the disputed name had already left Nvidia’s product. Its physics machine learning framework had been PhysicsNeMo since 2025. The lawsuit over its old name, MODULUS, kept going for more than … Read more
Silas Wilson released a new single under the name Ovrkast. on September 10, 2026. Six days later, the company that holds OutKast’s trademarks asked a federal court in Georgia to stop him from using that name and to rule that he had already agreed to give it up. The Lawsuit Puts Ovrkast’s Artist Name In … Read more
On April 21, 2026, a Swedish apparel company asked the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board to refuse registration of a phrase many Chicagoans know from their social feeds: “Everything Dope About America Comes From Chicago.” In the applied-for design, “DOPE” sits in the middle in letters larger than everything around it. That one word is … Read more
Songs For Littles, LLC, the company behind Ms. Rachel, paid $2,400 on May 27, 2026 to ask the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board to cancel the LIL HERBIE SERIES registration. The USPTO had cited that registration against three HERBIE applications for the show’s orange puppet. Registrant Sherrikka Myers says her mark never went unused. One … Read more
One CareFirst sells health coverage; the other provides in-home healthcare and staffing. On August 27, 2026, the insurer took their shared name to federal court. CareFirst Takes a Local Provider to Court The lawsuit, CareFirst of Maryland, Inc. v. CareFirst Community Health, LLC, was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. … Read more
A blue bird is back on the social-media market. During the week of August 24, 2026, a Virginia startup called Operation Bluebird, Inc. opened a browser-based social network at Twitter.now, built around public conversation and carrying the Twitter name. It did this while X Corp., which retired that name in 2023, was still asking a … Read more
A neighborhood convenience store near Dayton now faces a federal trademark lawsuit from one of the country’s best-known travel-center brands. The fight is about more than two cartoon beavers. It asks whether a name, a design, and a shared local market could lead customers to believe two very different businesses are connected. What Buc-ee’s Says … Read more
On August 10, 2026, the Chicago Cubs and Washington Nationals asked the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board to refuse registration of THE W for apparel. Their opposition puts WNBA Enterprises LLC’s pending clothing application alongside earlier W-formative marks that the baseball clubs say cover the same commercial territory. A short phrase can generate a detailed … Read more
A longhorn head and an orange storefront have put a Corpus Christi butcher shop across the courtroom from the University of Texas. On July 29, 2026, the Board of Regents of the University of Texas System sued Staples Street Meat Market and owner Michael Meehan in the US District Court for the Southern District of … Read more
A seven-ounce coffee can and a sixteen-ounce energy drink have carried a five-year naming dispute to the Supreme Court. The justices will decide who gets to determine how strong the RISE mark is before the rest of the confusion analysis begins. How a Beverage Naming Fight Reached the Supreme Court On June 29, 2026, the … Read more
A single diagonal stroke now sits at the center of a 31-page federal complaint between two AI companies that also buy and sell services from each other. I see the dispute as a warning about how much legal and commercial weight a compact logo can carry once the company name disappears. Anthropic Takes The Slash … Read more
Sixty-eight days after Perdue announced its limited-edition 6 7 Chicken Nuggets, the company filed a federal trademark and trade-dress lawsuit over a rival product. The parties agreed to settle less than a month later, leaving the package designs, three pending USPTO applications, and the speed of the conflict as the clearest practical record. The Freezer-Aisle … Read more
An Air Max 95 wrapped in orange, green, and red appeared on Nike’s launch calendar for July 11, 2026. The product copy sent buyers to a corner shop for a quick snack. Ten days before the scheduled drop, 7-Eleven filed a federal trademark lawsuit. I practice trademark law in California, and the filing shows how … Read more
Caleb Williams did more than roll out a nickname. His company filed a six-class federal trademark application for ICEMAN, and the USPTO responded with a June 24, 2026 non-final Office Action before the brand could reach registration. The filing moved the nickname from brand rollout into federal examination, where the USPTO measures it against older … Read more
Trademark disputes can run for decades, but many of them turn on moments that happened long before anyone filed a lawsuit. Bacardi’s latest loss in the HAVANA CLUB fight came down to a renewal payment submitted in December 2005, a Treasury Department license issued in January 2016, and whether those two events could be treated … Read more