Best of 2011: “Life rights”? (Making things with life?)
First posted May 23, 2011. Pittsburgh Trademark Lawyer Daniel Corbett brings us an NBA star’s attempt at a four-point shot: Post-relationship drama takes many forms, but... Read more
Category: Rights of Publicity and Personality
Feel the Burn, Baby
This doesn’t seem very radical. Not hardly. Originally posted 2013-01-13 22:41:30. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Read more
Best of 2007: It was twenty years ago today
First posted on February 5, 2007. Okay, not quite 20, but 16 years ago that Apple Inc. and the Beatles’ old record label, Apple Corps,... Read more
Divine trademark
If you believe in the divinity of the Angel Moroni, that is. Because his image is a trademark of the Mormons, and they’re pretty serious... Read more
There must be some kind of way out of here
But mediation isn’t it — in the Jimi Hendrix vodka case, that is, which Mike Atkins has been all over since last year, as we... Read more
Best of 2005: Death of an Icon
First published on April 4, 2005. A story from the L.A. Times / Washington Post syndicate, evidently sent to press before the Pope’s death, told... Read more
False connections under the Lanham Act
John Welch has posted a collection of “false connection” claims under Section 2(a) of the Lanham Act (15 U.S.C. 1052(a)). As it happens, a couple of... Read more
Bad “Experience”
Michael Atkins reports (I added a link): Owners of the Jimi Hendrix family of trademarks have sued over use of the deceased musician’s name in... Read more
Best of 2007: Trademark rights in interdigitization
Nick Daly drops me a note to the effect that one Jay-Z, gazillionaire rhyming scatologist, has been sued by a professional perspirer and leaping stage... Read more
Kid Rocks, Rolls
Popular music individual Kid Rock has prevailed in the Sixth Circuit appeal of a District Court ruling dismissing the lawsuit against him that sought to prevent... Read more
Best of 2011: Dubious assignations
First published on March 8, 2011. Steve Baird generously linked back to this LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION® post writing about the trademark status of some singer’s signature... Read more
Icon icon: “I conned”
Shepard Fairey, he of the icon con, is about to be the other kind of con — the “vict” kind, as Jim Treacher explains: By... Read more
A breath of fresh air!
Sometimes you just get to enjoy the view. Ain’t I an environmentalist too? Here, courtesy of the Salt Lake Tribune, is nature at its vicious, and... Read more
Nothing but err
In October of 2013 I blogged here about my participation in a panel on “trademark misuse” at the annual meeting of the AIPLA, where, among... Read more