{"id":173752,"date":"2026-02-11T18:15:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T18:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/173752\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T18:15:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T18:15:24","slug":"louis-tompros-analyzes-trademark-ruling-affecting-the-oakland-athletics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/173752\/","title":{"rendered":"Louis Tompros Analyzes Trademark Ruling Affecting the Oakland Athletics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wilmerhale.com\/en\/people\/louis-tompros\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Louis Tompros<\/a>, a partner in the firm\u2019s Intellectual Property Litigation Practice and the Hieken Lecturer in Patent Law at Harvard Law School, was interviewed in Harvard Law Today\u2019s article, \u201cLas Vegas Athletics Were Denied Trademarks, but Counterfeiters Beware.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the piece, Tompros discusses the US Patent and Trademark Office\u2019s preliminary refusal to register the trademarks \u201cLas Vegas Athletics\u201d and \u201cVegas Athletics\u201d for the Major League Baseball team currently known as the Oakland Athletics, ahead of its planned relocation to Las Vegas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He explains that while trademark registration provides additional legal protections, brand owners can still rely on common\u2011law trademark rights, and notes that the team may appeal the ruling and ultimately establish trademark ownership as consumers begin to associate the team with Las Vegas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/hls.harvard.edu\/today\/las-vegas-athletics-were-denied-trademarks-but-counterfeiters-beware\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Louis Tompros, a partner in the firm\u2019s Intellectual Property Litigation Practice and the Hieken Lecturer in Patent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":{"0":"post-173752","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-oakland","9":"tag-oakland-headlines","10":"tag-oakland-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}