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
Category: 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Joke of the First Amendment, Part II
We wrote in January about a Seventh Circuit oral argument wherein the panel took apart the unfortunate practitioner that tried to make a Constitutional silk... Read more
White-laced and wonderful
Now that all the excitement is past us, we can soberly link back and read Susan Scafidi’s reflections on the intellectual property implications what has... Read more