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There is small basketball court near my house that’s right next to the beach. Most every night I walk my 5-year-old down to the playground and take in the amazing sunset. She plays while I read a book, listen to a podcast. Except for tonight where I watched a pickup basketball game between strangers. It was cool to me how upon arriving at the court, these guys didn’t know each other, but in a matter a few minutes of playing, each person knew their role, knew the goal and depended on each other to accomplish that goal.
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Angel Reese—the former LSU basketball superstar who now plays for the Chicago Sky in the WNBA—made headlines recently when she filed an application to register MEBOUNDS as a trademark for clothing and related items (Serial No. 99,234,613).  “Mebounds” was a phrase used by some of Ms. Reese’s critics, referring to rebounds Ms. Reese grabs after…

Seyfarth IP partner, Matthew Moersfelder, authored an article, “Penn State Merchandise Case Runs Up Costs for Trademark Owners,” in Bloomberg Law . Moersfelder discussed the impact of Pennsylvania State University suing Vintage Brand LLC, alleging the company willfully infringed various Penn State trademarks by selling products featuring those marks on its website.

“If consumers are…