My client, Jamie Belcastro, a registered pharmacist, started Belmora LLC, a small, Virginia-based company that sells nonprescription pain relief products, about 20 years ago. For much of this time ...

In today’s increasingly global economy, trademark owners are more frequently butting up against the territorial limitations of trademark law. It has long been a matter of black letter law that ...

On February 6, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia reversed the US Trademark Trial and Appeal Board’s ruling in Bayer Consumer Care AG v. Belmora LLC, 110 USPQ2d 1623 ...

The Bayer-Belmora FLANAX trademark dispute has additional lessons for international trademark owners whose business may cross international borders. A closely watched cross-border trademark case ...

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September was the first time since Alice that the number of federal court decisions finding eligible subject matter exceeded those finding ineligible subject matter, according to BilskiBlog. Robert ...

Unregistered trademarks and commercial signs can be protected under common law rights and unfair competition claims. However, practical issues must be considered when applying such protection Parties ...

Belmora has petitioned the Fourth Circuit to reconsider its decision that Bayer did not need to use the Flanax mark in the US to sue under the Lanham Act. Belmora says the court “appeared to be ...

On his second day in office last week, Acting U.S. Solicitor General Noel Francisco urged the U.S. Supreme Court to avoid one headache by rejecting a trademark dispute over two painkillers with a ...

Bayer Consumer Care AG will have another shot at getting damages from Belmora LLC in a false advertising lawsuit over the painkiller brand name Flanax, after a federal appeals court ruled that a ...