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Category: Brand Management and Branding

Posted on March 6, 2023March 9, 2023 Brand Management and Branding

Amateur trademark filings, gauzy brand aids

A very popular post around here, based on server logs and SEO power, is this one: Trademark do it yourself?  In that post I dissect... Read more

Posted on March 2, 2023 Brand Management and Branding

Cowboy rules

From the National Post, trademark news about a lawsuit brought by New York’s charming Naked Cowboy against the makers of M&M’s and its ad agency.... Read more

Posted on February 16, 2023 Brand Management and Branding Trademarks and trademark law

Nothing gained?

UPDATE:  I have further thoughts about what is almost certainly the real motivating factor behind Jones Day’s actions in connection with their obviously frivolous lawsuit... Read more

Posted on January 31, 2023 Brand Management and Branding

Participation vacancy

Probably isn’t good enough pic.twitter.com/9rQwe0JVMm — Ron Coleman (@RonColeman) May 17, 2017 Originally posted 2017-05-18 06:36:08. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Read more

Posted on December 22, 2022 Brand Management and Branding Fair Use Free Expression Internet Law Trademarks and trademark law

Jews for Jesus* v. free speech: update

Maybe if Steve Brodsky or the Whistleblower published pornography or scandalous charactures of Dick Cheney or were uploading music files the self-appointed guardians of free speech would have something to say about what's going on here. Read more

Posted on December 20, 2022 Brand Management and Branding Trademarks and trademark law

SUPER HERO® my foot

UPDATE: Our NPR interview on this topic was on NPR’s “All Things Considered” just before 6 tonight. We blogged on this topic last week. Today... 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 December 8, 2022 Brand Management and Branding

Biting the hand that feeds you

The Trademark Troll, a blog written by former Harley Davidson IP counsel Dick Troll, comments on the S&L Vitamins case: Almost every case involving the... Read more

Posted on December 4, 2022 Brand Management and Branding

Naming names

What with all the good ones being taken, it’s only getting harder to hit that brand-name home run for a new product. Originally posted 2011-02-22... Read more

Posted on November 26, 2022 Brand Management and Branding Fair Use

More on toy models as trademark infringements

Ara Rubyan sends along this link to Boing Boing: Josh sez, “The folks at BMC (Black Mustang Club) automotive forum wanted to put together a... Read more

Posted on November 19, 2022 Brand Management and Branding

iForgot?

“Cisco lost rights to iPhone trademark last year, experts say” — on ZDNet.com. Could explain a lot. Originally posted 2014-09-08 18:10:28. Republished by Blog Post... Read more

Posted on November 5, 2022 Brand Management and Branding

Jeeves Gets the Pink Slip

The Street reports that “IAC/InterActiveCorp. is dropping the butler who doubles as the mascot of its recently acquired Ask Jeeves online search business.” Trademark /... Read more

McDonald's Family of Marks
Posted on October 28, 2022 Brand Management and Branding

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... Read more

Posted on October 27, 2022 Brand Management and Branding

Starbucks blinks

Big Green gives in on the Ethiopia coffee-bean-name controversy. I guess if you talk the PC talk, you’ve got to walk it, too. The result... Read more

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