Shana Olson

Dec 23, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Shana Olson

The Guitar Hotel in Hollywood, Florida is a hotel in the shape of the body of a guitar, with six lit-up “strings” running vertically up the surface of the building. At 7 pm daily, the hotel conducts a music and light show choreographed to different songs. Part of this show includes projecting six beams of light from the top of the building, creating an LED version of strings on a guitar neck 20,000 feet into the sky.

Sep 3, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Shana Olson

Part 3: HOWThe 2024 Summer Olympic Games have ended, the 2024 Summer Paralympic Games have begun, and this article brings to a close our three-part series on Trademarks & the Olympic Games. In June, we reviewed from where the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) derives its trademark rights, and in July we explored what trademarks the USOPC owns .

Jul 30, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Shana Olson

Part 2: WHATLast month, we reviewed where the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) derives its trademark rights—if you missed last month’s article, catch up here: June 2024 Article. This month, we are exploring what trademarks the USOPC owns, based on the statutes and case law we discussed last month. The USOPC and its holding company, United States Olympic and Paralympic Properties (USOPP), are very protective over its marks, and for good reason.

Jun 28, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Shana Olson

Part 1: WHERELike the rest of the world, we will have our eye on Paris this summer, breaking down trademark issues associated with the Olympic Games in a three-part series. Over the course of the next three months, we will review the where, what, and how: from where the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) derives its trademark rights, what it considers those rights to be, and how the Committee has enforced its rights against third parties.

Dec 22, 2023 | jdsupra.com | Shana Olson

As any good trademark practitioner knows, a “naked” consent agreement is one in which one party provides consent to the registration of another party’s mark without an explanation of why confusion is unlikely, or what the parties will do to minimize a likelihood of confusion. What, then, is the opposite of being naked? Clothed, of course. In one of the more interesting TMEP updates released in November 2023, the USPTO has coined a new term: the “clothed” consent agreement.