
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
Lawyer Ron Coleman on brands, the Internet & free speech
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
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
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
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
[Revised — RDC.] Congratulations to Richard K. Kirkpatrick of Pilsbury Winthrop, who has — through the Practising Law Institute — has come out with the... Read more
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
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
[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
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
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
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
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
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
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