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
Category: IP Overreaching
Goldman: The SOPA and the PIPA and the Santa Fe
No, not really the Santa Fe, but the rhythm of it seemed right, and after last week’s Benny Goodman post, well, I’m feeling nostalgic for... Read more
Someone get these guys a bandage!
Judge Jed Rakoff, famous in the Southern District of New York for not wasting any (judicial) time, doesn’t waste any in the J&J / Red... 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
The Stoller that lives under the bridge
If we didn’t have Leo Stoller we still couldn’t possibly invent him. Originally posted 2013-01-10 16:01:04. Republished by Blog Post Promoter 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
Hershey keeps pushing it
And as usual, Marty’s on top of it like chocolate sauce on vanilla ice cream. Hershey’s (Hershey’s’s?) pushing of the wrapper, foil and all, is... Read more
Best of 2012: Hardball at the TTAB
First posted on October 29, 2012. Far be it from me to put words into the mouth of John Welch, whose powers of expression are... Read more
Those Olympian games
Authoritative British IP blogger Peter Groves has characteristically well-developed thoughts about the UK’s widely-reported reign of terror over enforcement concerning “unauthorized” use of the word... Read more