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Category: Brand Management and Branding

College Belushi
Posted on September 20, 2023 Brand Management and Branding

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

Posted on September 19, 2023 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

Posted on September 15, 2023 Brand Management and Branding Fair Use Free Expression Trademarks and trademark law

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

McDonald's Family of Marks
Posted on September 12, 2023 Brand Management and Branding

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

Posted on September 2, 2023 Brand Management and Branding

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

Posted on August 26, 2023 Brand Management and Branding Copyright Law Fair Use Fashion Law Trademarks and trademark law

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

Posted on August 19, 2023 Brand Management and Branding

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

Posted on July 28, 2023 Brand Management and Branding

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

Posted on July 10, 2023July 14, 2023 Brand Management and Branding

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

Posted on July 7, 2023July 14, 2023 Brand Management and Branding Trademarks and trademark law

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

Posted on June 29, 2023 Brand Management and Branding Copyright Law Fair Use

“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

Posted on June 26, 2023 Brand Management and Branding

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

Marlboro Man
Posted on June 16, 2023July 12, 2023 Brand Management and Branding Fair Use

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

Posted on June 6, 2023July 12, 2023 Brand Management and Branding Fashion Law

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

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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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