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Berenato & White is pleased to continue to sponsor and support the University of Maryland Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship for the 2019-20 academic year. The Dingman Center is one of the nation’s preeminent institutions for the promotion of entrepreneurship. The Dingman Center provides curricular and non-curricular programs that leverage thought leadership, experiential learning and a network of practitioners to provide maximum resources to the startup community.

The Rural Maryland Council’s 2019 Rural Summit will held Thursday, December 12, 2019 at the Double Tree Hilton Hotel in Annapolis Maryland.  The Rural Summit highlights the achievements and progress of rural communities in Maryland.   Berenato & White is pleased to be a sponsor of this event, and Corinne Marie Pouliquen will be present to represent the firm.

The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (“PTO”) issued a final rule, effective on August 3, 2019, requiring that all applicants and registrants who are not domiciled within the United States must be represented by a United States attorney (specifically, “an attorney who is an active member in good standing of the bar of the highest court of a state in the United States”).

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that a statutory prohibition under 15 U.S.C. § 1052(a) against the federal registration of marks that contain “immoral” or “scandalous” matter violates the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.  Iancu v. Brunetti, --- S.Ct. ---, No. 18-302, 2019 WL 2570622 (June 24, 2019). The case arose from the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office’s refusal to register the mark FUCT as applied to clothing, because the mark is a homonym of a vulgar word.  Writing for the majority, Justice Kagan relied on the Supreme Court’s 2017 decision, Matal v.