Prejudice in a good way?
Can a company name be “prejudicial”? My friend Rob Holmes — he of the purportedly prejudicially-monikered “IPCybercrime” firm — is, quite reasonably, going to finish... Read more
Category: Section 2(a)
Redskins’ intractable trademark troubles — or sportswriters’?
I’ve been following the REDSKINS trademark travails since forever. Well, they’re not over. Or are they? Live with me in real-time, real-life blogging time. I... Read more
Redskins decision: The present judges the past
I’ve been writing about the dispute over the REDSKINS trademark on this blog more or less since the beginning of the blog itself. Today a... Read more
Trademarks, free speech and politics
Glenn Reynolds: TRADEMARK LAW SEEMS INCREASINGLY POLITICIZED. Eugene Volokh comments: “My tentative view is that the general exclusion of marks that disparage persons, institutions, beliefs, or national... Read more
Jiggering it out at the PTO
Oh, to be a hip, Jewish intellectual… property owner. Stick with me here. A while back I was following the story of the PTO’s refusal... Read more
Football Redskins live to fight another day
This story won’t die — especially judging from the prominence of related words among search terms that reach this blog. The latest, which we missed... Read more
Hardware trademark rejected in UK
The Register reports: A businessman has failed to win the right to register the term “screw you” as a wide-ranging European trademark because it is... Read more
No, no, a thousand times no. Homey.
Damon Wayans is rejected again in his attempt to file a trademark that only black people would be allowed to use. Or am I missing... Read more
Political Correctness Trademark Battle Continues
We haven’t heard the last of the fight over the Washington Redskins trademark fight. The AP reports that the earlier decision rejecting the challenge based... Read more