Trademark colors bleed
BrandWeek reports that universities are having success suing companies that make fan paraphernalia that don’t actually use team trademarks but do use slogans, colors and... Read more
Category: Brand Management and Branding
Best of LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®: Nuts to us? Or a “real” Charlie Brown Christmas? (Archive post)
Originally published December 9, 2009. Now a heartwarming tradition of bloggy goodness. Instapundit links to this item about the incredible shrinking Charlie Brown specials —... Read more
More, more, Moore!
One of my favorite ever topics here on LOC has been the litigation brought by the University of Alabama against painter Daniel Moore for unauthorized... Read more
Best of 2009: McBummer: Thoughts on the McFamily of Trademarks McConcept
I’ve written before about the odd cultural juxtaposition of McDonald’s and the Muslim world. It turns out I don’t know the half of it! Now McDonald’s... Read more
One cease and desist letter I won’t be sending
The AP reports that Disney could have some IP issues in a jurisdiction where, regrettably, I am not licensed to practice. Or to breathe: Hamas... Read more
Best of 2010: Trademarks, copyright, brand equity, and rent-seeking: Soapbox 2010
First posted on January 17, 2010. From last week’s INTA Trademark Topics email discussion list. One name has been changed to protect the innocent, and... Read more
Microsoft’s trademark master plan
Microsoft appears therefore to be leaning completely on a German trademark as a part of its international trademark strategy for a new product. On the... Read more
Best of 2008: Cowboy rules
First posted June 24, 2008. From the National Post, trademark news about a lawsuit brought by New York’s charming Naked Cowboy against the makers of... Read more
Best of 2009: “All that know-chow costs some scratch!”
This was first posted on August 26, 2009. Legal Blog Watch: Pet food giant Purina is like a dog that won’t give up its bone... Read more
I’m a CYBERLAWYER, too!
Slashdot: BigTimOBrien writes to mention the EFF is reporting that self-proclaimed cyberlawyer, Eric Menhart, has decided to trademark use of the term “cyberlaw” and is... Read more
“We cannot allow our brand to be abused”
Originally posted on November 13, 2008: “We cannot allow our brand to be abused.” What “brand” is that? The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.... Read more
SUPER BOWL® Trademark Watch and Contest I
Every year it’s the same thing: Several weeks before the Super Bowl®, people and businesses wishing to promote events related to the timing of the... Read more
Mooning off into the sunset
The lawsuit by the Naked Cowboy against candymaker Mars has been settled. Terms are undisclosed, the filing of a stipulation of dismissal with prejudice a... Read more
Decline and Fall
Counterfeit Chic reports on yet another indignity visited on the famous girl singer who is presently popular culture’s most pathetic public death spiral: a European... Read more