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Category: Costumes and Clothing

Stormtroopers
Posted on November 10, 2022 Costumes and Clothing

The dark side clouds everything

I am fascinated with IP disputes over costumes, and have written about a few of them.  I have also linked to this piece by Bill... Read more

Posted on September 23, 2022 Costumes and Clothing

H.R. Pufnstuf, Call Your Lawyer

Via Techlaw Advisor [UPDATE:  shuttered], a link to a very smart copyright blog from a member of the firm that cleaned my clock in 1998.... Read more

Posted on September 10, 2022 Costumes and Clothing

Chippendales shimmies up to the Circuit

Hot (if unlike LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION® you go for that sort of thing) off the presses — here’s the appellate brief in the Chippendale’s appeal of... Read more

Posted on August 18, 2022 Costumes and Clothing

Best of 2008: Tackiness not grounds for refusal to register

[Posted December 1, 2008.] Otherwise, why would John Welch be reporting this appeal?: December 4, 2008 – 10 AM: In re Chippendales USA, LLC, Serial... Read more

Posted on July 6, 2022July 12, 2022 Costumes and Clothing

Boo.

The intellectual property concerns regarding celebrity Halloween masks. Cheap-rubber-band-stapled-to-temples-of-plastic-mask tip to Overlawyered. Originally posted 2007-10-31 17:21:07. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Read more

Matthew David Brozik
Posted on May 24, 2022 Costumes and Clothing Fashion Law

Louboutin gets the boot

In a case that has everyone seeing red — No, let me start over. And without the jokes. Because in a decision in Christian Louboutin... Read more

Posted on March 6, 2022 Costumes and Clothing

Rah rah raw

TTABlog declines to comment on S. Ct. cheerleader uniform decision. — TTABlog (@TTABlog) March 22, 2017 Indeed.  LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION® is also not ready to... Read more

Posted on June 17, 2021 Costumes and Clothing

Hooters Overreaching on Trade "Dress": You can look but you’d better not touch

IP News Blog at Pierce reports that the high-class joint Hooters has lost an attempt to claim trade dress rights in the colors worn by... Read more

Posted on October 17, 2019 Costumes and Clothing

No cheerleading for Varsity Brands

Is copyright going to come to the rescue concerning the acknowledged fashion-design protection gap in U.S. intellectual property protection? Is the Sixth Circuit’s decision in Varsity Brands et... Read more

Counterfeit Chic logo
Posted on October 17, 2019 Costumes and Clothing Fashion Law

Couture in Court

Fabulous filings for fashionistas — and those who just want to look like them! Originally posted 2012-02-29 23:27:24. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Read more

Posted on August 2, 2019August 2, 2019 Costumes and Clothing

Going bananas after Star Athletica

Sometimes a banana costume isn't just a banana costume. At least not in the Third Circuit. #copyright Read more

Posted on December 12, 2017 Costumes and Clothing Trademarks and trademark law

Tackiness not grounds for refusal to register

Otherwise, why would John Welch be reporting this appeal?: December 4, 2008 – 10 AM: In re Chippendales USA, LLC, Serial No. 78666598 [Refusal to... Read more

Posted on June 20, 2017 Costumes and Clothing

Chippendales cuffs-and-collar TM “distinctiveness” claim goes “gently” into that dark night

Reuters reports on a high-class trademark story I’ve been following since my own dancing days: The male erotic dancer company Chippendales stumbled on Friday when... Read more

Posted on November 30, 2016December 1, 2016 Costumes and Clothing

The soupy IP legacy of Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol, we hardly knew you.  Then again, we knew more about you in some respects than we might have wanted to.  But on the... Read more

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