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Category: Brand Management and Branding

Posted on December 24, 2021January 12, 2022 Brand Management and Branding

Yule remember this old chestnut

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Posted on December 7, 2021 Brand Management and Branding

Labor Day Special: Nailing the arm and hammer trademark

Nothing worse for diluting baking soda — or a baking soda brand — than a gazillionaire commie plowing the waters with your logo on his yacht, you’d think. Read more

Posted on November 27, 2021 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

Posted on November 15, 2021 Brand Management and Branding

Resurrection

Resurrection is a popular topic in branding and trademarks. There’s Tylenol, of course, which returned from a near-death experience; and Pepsi, which promised to provide... Read more

Posted on October 18, 2021 Brand Management and Branding Copyright Law

Hitler on copyright

The “Downfall parodies” aren’t really parodies, in the legal sense.  But as this one demonstrates, “Hitler” does seem to understand something about copyright, law, IP... Read more

Posted on October 6, 2021 Brand Management and Branding

Malice branding

This post consists of one tweet about branding, the social moment, corporate ethics and all the things, by someone else. If the French Revolution were... Read more

Posted on September 13, 2021 Brand Management and Branding

Best of 2010: Lug me tender

First published on February 24, 2010. Should a law school be tendering seven figures of money to a minor league baseball team for stadium naming... Read more

Posted on August 30, 2021September 9, 2021 Brand Management and Branding Internet Law

Let’s brand together and make a BRANDED COMMUNITY!

Another one: A blogger on ZDNet had a post about “enterprise communities” where the phrase “branded community” was used. That’s a descriptive use and a... Read more

Posted on July 21, 2021 Brand Management and Branding Trademarks and trademark law

On the wrong track, as usual

Jews for Jesus, the sleazy, misleading missionaries who crawl over Manhattan each summer, had to back off from their use of the MTA’s world-famous symbols.... Read more

Posted on July 12, 2021 Brand Management and Branding

Those who are not with us today

CNN has a nice piece on “Brands We Loved and Lost in 2009.” Okay, we didn’t really “love” Home Depot’s Expo design centers and we... Read more

Posted on July 5, 2021 Brand Management and Branding

Big Green’s Ethiopian trademark problem

The Australian reports that earlier news about a resolution of Starbucks’ trademark problems with the Ethiopian coffee thing was perhaps over-caffeinated. UPDATE:  Have things perked... Read more

Posted on June 17, 2021 Brand Management and Branding

Hit the Road, JACK

Media Week reports that a company called SparkNet Communications sued a rival broadcasting outfit in May for infringing its trademark on stations in St. Louis,... Read more

Posted on June 17, 2021June 28, 2021 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 June 17, 2021 Brand Management and Branding Fair Use Free Expression Trademarks and trademark law

Jews for Jesus Redux (or, the Second Filing)

Jews for Jesus sues Google over blog SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Christian evangelical group Jews for Jesus is suing Google Inc., saying a Web log... 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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