Cohen Law, A PLC

05/23/2024

05/23/2024

01/10/2023

Thrilled to announce that partners Amy Cohen and Robert Cohen have been named to the Southern California Super Lawyers List for 2023. This is the seventh year of receiving this honor for Amy (preceded by two years on the Rising Stars list), who practices primarily Trademark and Copyright Law and Corporate Law. This is the ninth year of recognition for Robert (with an additional six years on the Rising Star list prior to that), who practices Trust and Probate Administration and Litigation. We look forward to assisting you!

01/25/2022

Proud to announce that partners Amy M. Cohen and Robert A. Cohen have both been selected to the Southern California Super Lawyers List for 2022. This is Amy's sixth year being selected for this list, and Rob's eighth year being selected for this list. Lawyers are selected to this list following peer nominations and attorney evaluations and scoring. Less than 2 percent of practicing attorneys in the state are selected. Congratulations to all of the Super Lawyers for 2022!

02/03/2021

Proud and pleased to announce that partners Amy Cohen and Robert Cohen have once again been selected to the Southern California Super Lawyers List! Both Amy and Rob have been honored with selection to the annual list over the past several years and continue to offer stellar legal service in several practice areas. We look forward to assisting you!

06/11/2020

This would certainly be funny if it turned out to be the case. I did a bit of quick research and found 14 currently active applications for registration of a mark with the words "Space Force" in it, most of which look to be filed in 2019 and 2020. There is 1 live registration for the sale of beer. The US Air Force applied for registration of the name in various categories (including golf clubs, lighters, and other merchandise) in May 2020 and for registration of the name in the clothing category in March 2019. I did not see any applications owned by Netflix. It will be fun to see if anything comes of this, but I'm not sure the research for this article even scratched the surface.

The United States announced its Space Force first, but Netflix's streaming series was first to launch, meaning it might win a trademark war.

02/04/2020

Attorneys Rob and Amy Cohen of Cohen Law, PLC in Valencia have both been named in January to the 2020 Southern California Super Lawyers® list, each for the fourth consecutive year. Read more through the link below.

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01/30/2020

We are pleased to announce that Rob Cohen and Amy Cohen have both been selected for inclusion on the 2020 Southern California Super Lawyers List, an honor reserved for the top 5% of attorneys in Southern California. This is Rob's 6th year being selected to this list (following 6 years of selection to the Super Lawyers Rising Stars list) and Amy's 4th year being selected (with 2 previous years on the Rising Stars list.) Congratulations to our attorneys Rob and Amy!

01/22/2020

Amy M. Cohen, Esq. explains why an individual’s plan to trademark Harry & Meghan’s brand likely won’t work. Read our blog to find out more.

https://bit.ly/2RDIpil

01/14/2020

Interesting story. First, I can't find any record of the guy on the CA Bar website, so I question whether or not he is actually a licensed, practicing attorney in the state of CA. Second, anyone who practices even a modicum of intellectual property law knows that you can register a brand in various classes of goods or services. If there is no reasonable relation between products or goods, 2 seemingly similar or even identical marks could be registered in 2 classes of goods or services. For example, I could register "Apple Tires" and Apple Computers would likely not be able to stop me because the average consumer is not going to confuse tires with computers or ipods. This guy filed his application in Class 38 (Telecommunications services) and described his services as "communications by computer terminals, transmission and delivery of video, audio, and data via the internet." I think he would be hard-pressed to argue that the average consumer could confuse a product sold by Harry and Meghan with his alleged "telecommunications" services, were he able to successfully register the mark. That points to another potential hurdle this individual faces - in order to fully register a trademark, it must be used in commerce. His application was filed based on an "intent to use" - which means that he is not using it yet, but intends to at some point in the future. The USPTO will not register a mark until it has been used in commerce. And finally, as the article points out, Harry and Meghan have already filed applications through the WIPO, seeking protection in their home country of the UK and other countries through the WIPO under the Madrid Protocol. Assuming their mark registers in the UK (and why wouldn't it?), their applications in those other countries will be given priority over any other applications.

Jared Fogelson, an intellectual property lawyer from Los Angeles, filed a trademark application in the US for 'Sussex Royal' on January 8 after finding the name was still available.