Bad for the Juice: The TTAB’s phantom tag
Ron ColemanNo, not that Juice. He’s got enough trouble already. (And no, not the Juice that has this guy all in a froth either.) I write, rather, about the too-clever-by-half would-be…
How Web Content Consumption Has Evolved
Far be it from me to be a malcontent, but one problem we have around here is that the copyright and trademark statutes have changed very little to reflect the…
USPTO Boot Camp: Trademark Edition (advertisement)
This blog is a media partner sponsor for the following upcoming CLE seminar from the American Conference Institute: USPTO Boot Camp: Trademark Edition Wednesday, September 24, 2008 Hilton Alexandria Mark…
Kissing trademark rights goodbye?
Eric Johnson‘s Pixelization blog has a sweet insight into a sticky trademark mess that Hershey’s could be, theoretically, getting itself into: It’s a Hershey’s-brand three-compartment silicone muffin pan. When you…
Ten questions on trademark application “fraud”
John Welch asks ten questions about the state of the law on so-called “fraud” on the Trademark Commissioner, i.e., the type that invalidates a trademark. This is “fraud” of the…
Copyright protection for blogs
Sarah Bird explains how to do it right. She explains why she thinks you would possibly want to bother here, conveniently omitting the uncomfortable fact that — unlike Sarah Bird…
Constitution? But we’re patent lawyers!
Maybe. Maybe not: The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office may have a major problem on its hands — the possibly unconstitutional appointment of nearly two-thirds of its patent appeals judges.…
Blogger beats lawyer
Blogger Kathleen Seidel pushes back on the Clifford Shoemaker subpoena — all by herself, it seems — and wins. UPDATE: More stuff. I completely missed the boat on this one.
The target keeps moving on keyword advertising
Searchengineland: Eric Goldman reports that a US District Judge in Florida ordered an advertiser using a trademark term to use the negative keyword option, to ensure that they would no…
The trendiest of trends
“Green trademarks” that is. Green-themed, green-related, green to go, green for action! Well, trends aren’t just for marketers — you can find them in the media too. First, Susan Scafidi…
Mine goodness!
The New York Times: The “my” prefix has become an easy and increasingly popular shorthand for suggesting that bond between consumers and corporations. Matthew Zook of ZookNIC, a business that…
Ben Stein trips over IP
Walter Olson: Ouch. Ben is an odd guy. UPDATED: But evidently he — or, more likely, his “people” — is not such the slouch in the “fair use” department —…
Strange bedfellows
Parlous times: John Welch endorses the International Star Registry!
Chip off the old block
Is the Patent and Trademark Office the new venue for gossip-column developments? It appears so: According to public filings, Ivanka Trump recently withdrew applications to trademark her own name after…