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Posted on November 3, 2021 Trade Secrets

Pleas entered for illegal trafficking of Coke®; plus Ice

The bad people who tried to peddle internal Coca-Cola trade secrets, including samples of a new drink, to Pepsi — only to have Pepsi turn... Read more

Posted on June 17, 2021 Brand Management and Branding

Coke adds Second Life?

I’ve written before about the emerging issues involving the use of trademarks in so-called virtual reality. There’s been a lot of buzz on the Internet... Read more

Coca-Cola Classic
Posted on October 31, 2019 Free Expression

Best of 2005: Have a Coke and a Trial

Originally posted on July 15, 2005. India doesn’t have a First Amendment, as such, but from what I read its free speech protections are similar... Read more

Coca-Cola Classic
Posted on July 15, 2005May 3, 2010 Brand Management and Branding Fair Use Free Expression Trademarks and trademark law

Have a Coke and a Trial

India doesn’t have a First Amendment, as such, but from what I read its free speech protections are similar to those in the West. So... Read more

Posted on April 13, 2023 Brand Management and Branding

Trademarks in the age of 140 characters or less

Or at least trademark logos. Context:  If you’re over 50, you can probably remember when television commercials were mainly 60 seconds or 30 seconds.  There... Read more

Posted on December 17, 2022 Brand Management and Branding

Bad for branding, worse for trade secrets

Pesticides in soft drinks, that is. Or even allegations of them. Boing Boing reports that a court in India has ordered Pepsi and Coke to... Read more

Posted on November 11, 2022 False Advertising

Magnesium ad nauseum

Ryan Gile reports that it’s Coke vs. Pepsi on behalf of their sport-drink proxies, Gatorade and Powerade: Coke’s advertising . . . makes the claim... Read more

Posted on September 29, 2022 Brand Management and Branding

Best of 2012: The way of all flash

First posted March 27, 2012. So, what happens when a trademark registration lapses?  The post at the link, by Corsearch, is, yeah, kind of an... Read more

Posted on August 6, 2022August 11, 2022 Social Media

Tweetmark infringement

When I first retired from my utter misuse of Twitter (it was all the rage!), I did so by politely bidding farewell to my 500 or... Read more

cloth with artistic design
Posted on April 28, 2022May 12, 2022 LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®

A free market moment

Stephen Laniel finds, in trademark law, reason not to throw the whole thing over: The public-health justification for trademark law is pretty clear: if the... Read more

Posted on January 22, 2022 Journalism

Not So Plain Dealing

Instapundit links to this teef-gnashing item from Michael Silence about this super-secret scandal, based on leaked documents, that the Cleveland Plain Dealer would for sure... Read more

Posted on August 21, 2021August 23, 2021 IP Overreaching

Tall orders

It’s always something, isn’t it.  Here’s the latest shipwreck-in-the-making — you can’t call tall ships tall ships any more, matey: The age of wooden ships... Read more

Coca-Cola Host of the Highways
Posted on June 17, 2021 Brand Management and Branding

Drive-by infringement

Steve Baird says initial interest confusion is “the real thing” and in the process  seeks to “add life” to Professor McCarthy’s famous “evil highway road sign”... Read more

Posted on June 17, 2021 Brand Management and Branding

The way of all flash

So, what happens when a trademark registration lapses?  The post at the link, by Corsearch, is, yeah, kind of an advertisement for Corsearch.  But it... Read more

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The question of whether consumers are likely to be confused is the signal inquiry that determines if a trademark infringement claim is valid. I write here about trademark law, copyright law, brands, free speech (mostly as it relates to the Internet and social media). That may sound like a lot, but it's just a blog.

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