More, more, Moore!
One of my favorite ever topics here on LOC has been the litigation brought by the University of Alabama against painter Daniel Moore for unauthorized... Read more
Category: Trademarks and trademark law
Upper crust – the POCKET SANDWICHES croissants saga (Part 1 of 2)
Letters, we get letters. Sometimes people just want to share their trademark woes with me. Sometimes they want free advice, or cheap advice, or just... Read more
Rosetta Stone v. Google: Lost in translation
[stextbox id=”alert”]This is a summary and analysis of the recent (August 2, 2010) decision in Rosetta Stone Ltd. v. Google Inc., 2010 WL 3063152 (E.D.... Read more
Best of 2010: Trademarks, copyright, brand equity, and rent-seeking: Soapbox 2010
First posted on January 17, 2010. From last week’s INTA Trademark Topics email discussion list. One name has been changed to protect the innocent, and... Read more
Spam Can’t Act
The U.K. Register reports that what would appear to be a very late in the game attempt by the original spammers — Hormel, makers of... Read more
New “knockoff news,” TM prosecution blog
Rob Holmes, anti-counterfeiting investigator to the stars, has revamped and retooled his blog — check out his Knockoff Report: News & Views in the World... Read more
This is the last SLANTS song I’ll ever sing for you
For now. It was exciting last Friday, arguing the appeal of the THE SLANTS*, at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit! A little... Read more
Friends of the court, friends of the First Amendment
The approved and publishable amicus briefs in the appeal regarding the trademark registration of THE SLANTS are trickling in. Certainly interesting to see who is... Read more
Tough McNuggets
Joe Gratz shares none of McDonald’s McPain over its efforts to get “McJob” out of the dictionary. He’s right, of course. (UPDATE: Related thoughts.) Originally... Read more
Burying 2(a) at the CIPLA
Matal v. Tam was highly influential in the subsequent Supreme Court case Iancu v. Brunetti, which also overturned the provisions of the Lanham Act prohibiting the registration of “immoral” and “scandalous” trademarks on the same grounds. Mr. Coleman will speak about both of these cases, including his experience in the Tam case, and provide his insights regarding the future of registration of these types of controversial trademarks with the USPTO. Read more
CREATINE writing
The TTABlog examines, so to speak, an almost metaphysical TTAB discussion of when a trademark is or is not “unitary” for purposes of the requirement... Read more
Document review
Where to start, where to start… At the beginning, I guess. Though not in chronological order. LIKELY2CONFUSE00001: I wrote a post on the subject of... Read more
I’m a CYBERLAWYER, too!
Slashdot: BigTimOBrien writes to mention the EFF is reporting that self-proclaimed cyberlawyer, Eric Menhart, has decided to trademark use of the term “cyberlaw” and is... Read more
Not so Scrabulous
CNET News / Reuters: The makers of Scrabble have asked Facebook to remove a popular online version of the word game, Scrabulous, which they say... Read more