Branded for life
BrandlandUSA Blog: Here are our Top 19 stories so far this year. More people are concerned with the ugliness of the new Kraft logo than... Read more
Month: August 2014
Linux Redux
Philip Albert writes In Defense of the Linux Trademark. (See here for the other side.) Read more
Whither The Unwritten MSM Constitution?
Glenn Reynolds writes: THE NEW YORK TIMES’ PUBLIC EDITOR, Byron Calame, criticizes the Times’ handling of the NSA story. Jeff Jarvis calls Calame’s column “almost... Read more
No more free ride
Attributor is a new program that online publishers can and do use to trace their verbal content across the Internet and see who is using... Read more
Likelihood of comprehension
You must read Marty Schwimmer’s “Annotatation of ‘How Apple could fight Cisco.'” You’ll learn a lot about trademark law if you do and just may... Read more
Prejudice in a good way?
Can a company name be “prejudicial”? My friend Rob Holmes — he of the purportedly prejudicially-monikered “IPCybercrime” firm — is, quite reasonably, going to finish... Read more
Infinite loop (updated and bumped)
Originally published on July 22, 2011; see update at bottom!) It can only mean one thing when you read this in a news article: On... Read more
Secret defrauder ring (UPDATED)
I want one, too! What is the FRAUD-O-METER™? Its creator, John Welch, explains: Some say that a picture is worth a thousand words, and that... Read more
Anonymous victim
The Anonymous Lawyer seems to have hit some sort of new plateau. Read more
No more Wikipedia…
… for Patent Examiners. Trademark practitioners are, however, still stuck with it and its unpredictable effects. Read more
Of Macaques and Men: [obligatory monkey pun subtitle here]
Have you heard the one about the monkey who stole the wildlife photographer’s camera and took a picture of herself? And then Wikipedia posted the... Read more
Tweets for the sweet
It’s been a couple of weeks, but then again no one was really out there anyway — here are the recent topical tweets I’ve shared... Read more
Judge: “Go after your distributors, not free enterprise”
Judges — especially in the Eastern District of New York — are picking up what’s going on in the “elite salons” end of the trademarks-as-distribution-method-enforcement... Read more