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Category: Trademarks and trademark law

Posted on January 18, 2023 Trademark registration

Keeping it real: Bye-bye, Banksy

Trademarks are an open book — even for Banksy. One of the signal features of the United States trademark registration system is its openness. As... Read more

Posted on January 17, 2023January 23, 2023 Trademarks and trademark law

Vo-do-de-o

The Trademark Blog reports on the dispute between ICED VOVO v ICED DOUGH VO. The song is here.  Just try to stay in your seat!... Read more

Posted on January 10, 2023January 23, 2023 Places - Geographical Descriptions and Trademarks

India, Scotland in same news story: Must be trademark law

Two of the least probable Commonwealth countries* slug it out! The AP reports: India plans its own genteel revenge (think Darjeeling tea). It’s a big... Read more

Posted on January 7, 2023 Section 2(a)

Indian givers (part 3)

Part one and part two of this three-part post were published earlier this week. When the PTO’s decision revoking the REDSKINS registrations was affirmed by... Read more

Posted on January 4, 2023 Likelihood of Confusion

Likelihood of Confusion in Trademark Law: Richard Kirkpatrick wrote the book (again)

[Revised — RDC.] Congratulations to Richard K. Kirkpatrick of Pilsbury Winthrop, who has — through the Practising Law Institute — has come out with the... Read more

Posted on January 2, 2023 Section 2(a)

The ACLU’s strange bedfellows

Here’s some news:  The American Civil Liberties Union says the Redskins are wrong, damned wrong — but they’ve got every right in the world to... Read more

man standing on cliff
Posted on December 31, 2022January 23, 2023 Trademarks and trademark law

Rewriting his story?

Slashdot: The_Pey writes “Recently, an application was pulled from the Apple App Store because of its name. The game in question, Edge, reportedly infringes on... Read more

Joel MacMull
Posted on December 26, 2022 Genericness and Trademarks

Booking.com and genericness

[stextbox id=”info” caption=”Joel MacMull of Mandelbaum Salsburg” image=”https://www.likelihoodofconfusion.com/wp-content/uploads/Joel-MacMull-e1575392890760.png”]My partner Joel MacMull and I have spent a lot of time thinking, speaking about and litigating the... Read more

Posted on December 25, 2022 Fair Use Free Expression Trademarks and trademark law

Companies versus their fans

Walter Olson: The famous maker of candies and candy-dispensers is suing the owners of the Burlingame Museum of Pez Memorabilia in Northern California, claiming that... Read more

Posted on December 24, 2022 Stealing the Language

Not Safe For Witlessness

Techcrunch: I’d think this was a joke, except for the USPTO entry. Fark has lodged a trademark application for the term “Not Safe For Work.”... Read more

Posted on December 22, 2022 Brand Management and Branding Fair Use Free Expression Internet Law Trademarks and trademark law

Jews for Jesus* v. free speech: update

Maybe if Steve Brodsky or the Whistleblower published pornography or scandalous charactures of Dick Cheney or were uploading music files the self-appointed guardians of free speech would have something to say about what's going on here. Read more

Posted on December 20, 2022 Brand Management and Branding Trademarks and trademark law

SUPER HERO® my foot

UPDATE: Our NPR interview on this topic was on NPR’s “All Things Considered” just before 6 tonight. We blogged on this topic last week. Today... Read more

Posted on December 13, 2022 Stealing the Language

Gripes of wrath

If you’ve seen one disgruntled-former-law-associate attack gripe site, you’ve seen them all.  But I did like this point by gold-plated pariah Edward Harrington Heyburn, Esq. (corrected).  Because... Read more

Posted on December 12, 2022 Section 2(a)

Best of 2014: Redskins decision: The present judges the past

Originally posted on June 18, 2014. I’ve been writing about the dispute over the REDSKINS trademark on this blog more or less since the beginning... Read more

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