The Ninth Circuit recently ruled on a copyright matter called Corbello v. Valli. The case concerns the doo-wop act The Four Seasons, the musical Jersey Boys, and a brand-new legal concept called the “doctrine of asserted truths.” It’s an interesting case because it states something that’s pretty obvious — but it also clarified some things…
Practitioners were surprised to see an entity called DTTM Corporation, headquartered in Trump Tower in New York, filed an application for the seemingly descriptive mark TELERALLY. Surprised because DTTM is in fact a business owned by the family of President Donald Trump, which had supposedly, under the stewardship of Eric and Donald Jr., separated its…