Trademarks: The IP that isn’t IP
I have asked, begged, cajoled and — well, no I haven’t threatened Ed Timberlake; who could do that? — but in any event, he won’t... Read more
Category: Trademarks and trademark law
Google me this II
We blogged a week or so ago (before I got bogged down in this trial — still in progress [UPDATE]) about Google’s trademark challenges. Here’s... Read more
End-run around the USPTO
As you can imagine, the power vested in a court by this law can only be used for good... or evil. And in this Second Circuit appeal of a matter in which our office was brought in after the entry of a judgment by the district court, we argue that it was not so good what the judge did. Read more
Getting to the core of the Apple / Beatles TM settlement
Nice little bit of journalism here: Apple Inc. scores trademark coup with Beatles’ label logos Originally posted 2012-03-18 14:49:21. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Read more
Phantoms, zombies and the big problem with trademark use (Best of 2017)
Originally published May 30, 2017. I’ve got trademark use on the brain! Maybe it’s the Belmora effect — the result of living in a world in which... Read more
Thanks for listening, Ecuador!
That’s it. That’s the post. Read more
On the wrong track, as usual
Jews for Jesus, the sleazy, misleading missionaries who crawl over Manhattan each summer, had to back off from their use of the MTA’s world-famous symbols.... Read more
Q the Lawyers
A report in the online Financial Express says that Nissan is suing Audi over “Q.” To wit: “We are seeking to bar Audi from using... Read more
New law of trademark dilution
My old friends at Kaye Scholer (link fixed!) give you the skinny on the new Trademark Dilution Act. Bottom line: Good for big companies. Not so... Read more
Candy-coated popcorn, peanuts and a prize! That’s what you get from —
Roller derby! Quinn Heraty reports on the trademark battle to make us forget SPAM v. Spamarrest — the CRACKERJACK derby: Frito-Lay has filed an opposition... Read more
Uplifting blog post on trademark protection
How to get that ® to rise above it all in Microsoft Word. Originally posted 2014-08-18 11:21:22. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Read more
Belmora’s U.S. Supreme Court certiorari reply brief in the FLANAX case
Originally posted 2017-02-08 17:12:15. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Read more
Back from the void
In trademarks, generic is generic is generic. That’s what makes it generic. But there’s a difference between a would-be trademark that is born generic and... Read more
Trademark Modernization Act!
There we were, all locked down in our houses and not going to the INTA Annual Meeting, and there was a Trademark Modernization Act! Of... Read more