Booking.com and genericness
The U.S. Supreme Court announced earlier this month that it will hear the Booking.com trademark case in the new year. Booking.com BV, owner of the […]
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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 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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Back from the void
Originally posted 2017-03-09 13:47:25. Republished by Blog Post PromoterIn trademarks, generic is generic is generic. That’s what makes it generic. But there’s a difference between […]
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I feel like a table-tennis ball!
Originally posted 2011-03-03 21:13:59. Republished by Blog Post Promoter When I saw Sergiy Sivochek’s post about the PING PONG trademark, I thought it sounded familiar — […]
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The dreaded dictionary
Originally posted 2012-05-10 14:06:05. Republished by Blog Post PromoterA couple of years ago I wrote this post called “the Museum of Genericization,” about a feature […]
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The Trademark That’s Too Good to be a Trademark
Originally posted 2005-12-26 12:46:46. Republished by Blog Post PromoterThat’s what a generic mark is. The TTAB Blog reports that the TTAB has ruled that Lawyers.com, […]
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Best of 2012: Bates and hooks
Originally posted 2012-12-24 13:00:52. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Bates numbering, that is. As a litigator, I’ve been living with Bates-numbering, or Bates-stamping, for over […]
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NYIPLA: Hot topics and a generic presentation
This Thursday is the hot summer half-day of sizzling CLE: The “Hot Topics in Intellectual Property” extravaganza at the New York Intellectual Property Association. And […]
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The new generic
It is no longer the case that the appearance of your brand in the dictionary spells its doom as a protectable trademark.
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Best of 2008: MasterCard card. Card card. Card.
Originally posted 2015-01-23 10:46:14. Republished by Blog Post PromoterFirst posted December 17th, 2008. A reader writes to New York Times Q&A guy Stuart Elliot with […]
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When Dot Com really can make a trademark (Best of 2017)
Originally posted on September 8, 2017.In an important new ruling, Booking.com B.V. v. Matal, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia — on an […]
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When Dot Com really can make a trademark
In an important new ruling, Booking.com B.V. v. Matal, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia — on an appeal from the PTO under […]
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Verb That Adjective Noun! “Google” Is Not (Yet) Generic.
It was bound to happen sooner or later—and in fact it happened back in 2012. Someone sued to have “Google” declared generic and the registration […]
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Matthew David Brozik
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