Garbagio trademarks: Top of the heap
There’s still time to register for the “Failure to Function” #trademark panel in Boston on Nov. 5th!
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Don’t mutilate my mark!
Originally posted 2010-10-12 18:56:05. Republished by Blog Post PromoterJohn Welch treats us to another edition of “You Be the Judge” — well, he calls it […]
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Continue reading » Whitewashed
Originally posted 2010-04-12 18:58:43. Republished by Blog Post PromoterAm I missing something here? Did you know that the terms “Black Power,” “Black Supremacy,” and “La […]
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Best of 2012: Cole Haan’s and the MTA’s subway trademark stories
Originally posted 2012-12-23 18:00:57. Republished by Blog Post PromoterFirst posted April 16, 2012. I’ve been following the IP obsession of New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority […]
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Best of 2006: “They’re stealing the language!”
Originally posted 2015-01-18 22:59:49. Republished by Blog Post PromoterFirst published March 20, 2006. Writes Boing-Boing: “Super-hero” isn’t Marvel’s property. They didn’t invent the term. They […]
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Best of 2012: Apostrophe now
Originally posted 2015-06-28 11:50:17. Republished by Blog Post PromoterOriginally published October 11, 2012. Via Courthouse News, a report of a trademark lawsuit that I’d think […]
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Gibson argues for brand on the merits
Originally posted 2012-10-05 15:05:04. Republished by Blog Post PromoterSince the beginning I’ve been blogging about the attempts by Gibson and Fender, the makers of fine […]
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He’s got the key
Originally posted 2014-03-12 15:58:34. Republished by Blog Post PromoterEric Goldman, author of one of the bona-fide-deserving, regularly updated, ABA-Blawg-100-listed and actually fairly indispensable Technology & Marketing Law Blog […]
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Continue reading » Google Takes Offense, Takes Offensive (for a change)
Originally posted 2013-08-20 13:18:08. Republished by Blog Post PromoterAccording to Search Engine Journal, perennial trademark infringement defendant Google has filed suit against Froogles.com, an online […]
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In a family way
Originally posted 2010-11-11 23:59:08. Republished by Blog Post PromoterI’ve written, as is my wont, at great length regarding my skepticism about the “family of trademarks” […]
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In which we blog on some other guy’s dice
Originally posted 2016-12-12 17:13:36. Republished by Blog Post Promoter What happens in Vegas stays in Albany, NY? #trademarks #hockey https://t.co/7ZVGBLJBto — Tiffany Valeriano (@trademarktiff) December […]
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Bully for who?
Originally posted 2011-02-02 13:32:33. Republished by Blog Post PromoterOr should it be whom? Anyway, my article on trademark bullying first published in January’s Intellectual Property […]
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Texaco sees dead licensees
Originally posted 2010-06-21 17:46:10. Republished by Blog Post PromoterDuets Blog reports on a case in which Chevron — now owner of one the biggest trademarks […]
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Sue you in the funny papers!
Originally posted 2010-10-22 15:37:30. Republished by Blog Post PromoterDuets Blog presents the exciting, amply illustrated and, potentially, graphically violent story of the company that thought […]
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