24 CM Law Partners Recognized in the 2025 Listing of Best Lawyers in America®

Best Lawyers®, the only purely peer-review™ guide to the legal profession, announced the 2025 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America on August 15, 2024.
20 Culhane Meadows Partners Recognized in Listing of Best Lawyers in America®

Best Lawyers®, the only purely peer-review™ guide to the legal profession, announced the 2024 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America on August 17, 2023.
Update Trademark Registrations to Reflect New Technology

If you have trademark registrations for technologies that are now outdated, you may be eligible to participate in a new US Trademark Office program to update your registrations. Here are some examples: – Let’s say your company makes videos, and your registrations say “videotapes featuring musical instruction“ but, since you last renewed your registration, your […]
Trademark Nominative Fair Use in an Emoji World

This article explores the history of trademark nominative fair use and the recent case filed by In-N-Out Burgers against Door Dash. It looks at whether there is potential for a shift in traditional thinking about what is allowable under fair use in light of changes in our culture and how we use apps and visual […]
Picking a Powerful Trademark is Good for Business

Whether you’re naming your corporation or adding a new product, you have to go through the often-painful birthing process of finding a name that will work. One that hasn’t been taken. One that isn’t too close to another one. One that isn’t so descriptive that you can’t stop others from using something similar. One that […]
Combatting Online Unauthorized Resellers of Your Company’s Genuine Products

Unauthorized online resellers have become a real problem for US manufacturers. They seem to be able to sell your products for less than you do. This is because they have no overhead or advertising expenses. Some have access to grey market goods—your products sold for less in
Culhane Meadows Enters Chicago Seeking Positive Market Disruption

Culhane Meadows PLLC, one of the nation’s largest cloud-based law firms, announces its expansion into Chicago with the addition of three lateral partners: Angela Washelesky (formerly at Reed Smith), Susan Macaulay (formerly at Skadden Arps) and Paula Jill Krasny (formerly at Baker & McKenzie). “Given the number of global companies headquartered in Chicago and its […]