PissedConsumer.com: Ascentive v. Opinion Corp.
I try to tread lightly with respect to blogging about cases I’m involved with, but there’s not much question that the December 13, 2011 Eastern... Read more
Category: Trademarks and trademark law
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
INTA on Initial Interest Confusion
The work of my INTA subcommittee, on an issue raised by me (and followed through on mostly by others): INTA – Initial Interest Confusion September... Read more
Best of 2009: “Keeping it real — the ultimate use in commerce”
This was first posted on May 7, 2009. The TTABlog® reports, again, on the fraud issue, but that’s not what interests me here so much... Read more
No one Timesing this story?
The New York Times gets it… Very, very good, as Evan Brown and I said three years ago almost to the day. Hey, look, they’re... Read more
Best of 2010: How Supreme Skateboard plays the edge
First posted on June 1, 2010. The new Case Clothesed blog out of New York Law School has a very interesting, if lightly sourced, piece about... Read more
Trademark blogoids
Blogoids? Tablogs? It could happen! After all, look how we got the word “tabloid.” Did you ever think about what an odd name that is... Read more
Bully for who?
Or should it be whom? Anyway, my article on trademark bullying first published in January’s Intellectual Property Magazine and excerpted in this previous post, is... Read more
Sealed with a fist
I kvetch a lot about the mania for dubious “IP enforcement” by government agencies such as New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority, which really should both... Read more
WAL-ZYR versus ZYRTEC: Allergic to legislating trademark law?
I have no problem using the TTABlog for a blog launching point every week. Why would I when I can riff on a post such... Read more
The return of the scandalous mark denial?
Perhaps the “immoral and scandalous” rule is nothing to sniff at, after all. The Times asks: Will the COCAINE tradememark take a powder? I don’t... Read more
Through WINDOWS®, darkly
Mr. Thorne, legal marketing wordsmith extraordinaire, wonders: Why would a court opinion use the magic ® symbol to refer to one registered trademark and not... Read more
That special something that says “infringement”
Paul Alan Levy sends along this heartwarming news about the Jenzabar case: In a ruling this week, a Massachusetts trial judge upheld the free speech rights... Read more
Words matter
Words are almost everything in a trademark registration, notwithstanding that one drawing. Stick with me. It’s going to get a little esoteric — not to... Read more