Bea©h ball?
At a recent beach-themed birthday party for a one-year-old girl, the cute, creative table-number “cards” were small inflated beach balls with the guests’ names written... Read more
Category: IP Overreaching
SUPER BOWL® trademark post XI: Consumer Reports and the super-duper exemption
Yes, it is that time of year again — the SUPER BOWL® trademark overreaching (dare I say bullying?) time of year. This January I’m focusing... Read more
You and Me Against the (Tulsa) World
Instapundit reports that Mike Bates at the Bates Line blog is fighting back against meritless legal threats from his nemesis, 500-pound media gorilla (in Tulsa terms) the Tulsa World. Mike... Read more
Best of 2005: Culture Killers or Pains in the Neck?
First posted on February 17, 2005. Wired reports on a new book whose thrust, evidently, aligns decently well with my own little personal views (and... Read more
Lego my Trademark
Europe just keeps generating stories. Their IP system is different, you see, though the march toward harmonization in a global market continues apace. Evidently, Lego... Read more
Not the swiftest
It is so tiring. But that, to some extent, is what they’re counting on. Taylor Swift abusing trademark, again, of course. And everyone else not... Read more
Changing the IP Mentality
Mark V.B. Partridge, a partner at the firm that bears the name of my old trademark professor and author of the Guiding Rights Blog [link is... Read more
Dell’s cloudy IP planning
Has anyone figured this out? Dell’s newly-acquired trademark for the term “cloud computing” may have all the durability of a glass hammer, meaning it will... Read more
NFL punts in “Big game”
The NFL is a lot of things, but I never thought it was stupid. It turns out that it isn’t. The Sports Blog reports: Remember... Read more
We’ve got a bigger problem now
Orwell Estate Sends Copyright Takedown Over the Number “1984” – TorrentFreak https://t.co/eKgwHmhXmf — TrademarkBlog (@TrademarkBlog) October 27, 2015 It’s like something out of 1984! Where... Read more
Best of 2008: The Color Purple
This was first posted on April 14, 2008. Cadbury is purple in the face over not being able to secure the wordlwide exclusive rights to... Read more
The super bowl of SUPER BOWL®s
I used to have the Super Bowl® trademark gig all to myself. The last post I did was in 2015, when I chided Consumer Reports... Read more
IOU’s for IU
Here’s the story about how Indiana University stopped Indoctrinate U. — a documentary that is critical of political correctness on American college campuses — in... Read more
Trademarks: Famous is as famous does
My latest paper offers a simple idea to get trademark owners to stop suing parodists, satirists, and other expressive users: make evidence of such independent... Read more