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Not So Fast – GSA Implements New SAM Registration Requirements After Fraudulent Activity

Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 04.17.18

Following fraudulent activity in the System for Award Management (SAM), the General Services Administration (GSA) is implementing new requirements for registration in SAM.  Effective March 22, 2018, new entities to SAM are now required to submit a notarized letter identifying their authorized Entity Administrator before a new SAM registration is activated, and beginning April 27, 2018, entities with existing SAM registrations will also be required to submit this notarized letter to confirm the authorized Entity Administrator before current SAM registrations are updated or renewed.

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Client Alert | 4 min read | 12.30.25

Are All Baby Products Related? TTAB Says “No”

The United States Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB or Board) recently issued a refreshed opinion in the trademark dispute Naterra International, Inc. v. Samah Bensalem, where Naterra International, Inc. petitioned the TTAB to cancel Samah Bensalem’s registration for the mark BABIES' MAGIC TEA based on its own BABY MAGIC mark. On remand from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the TTAB reconsidered an expert’s opinion about relatedness of goods based on the concept of “umbrella branding” and found that the goods are unrelated and therefore again denied the petition for cancellation....