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Category: Likelihood of Confusion

Posted on October 17, 2019 Likelihood of Confusion

Best of 2011: Upper crust – the POCKET SANDWICHES croissants saga

First posted on July 15, 2011. Letters, we get letters. Sometimes people just want to share their trademark woes with me. Sometimes they want free... Read more

Posted on October 17, 2019 Likelihood of Confusion

Multi Time Machine v. Amazon: SCOTUS not interested, initially or otherwise

Sad, bad and not unexpected news via the Cert Pool Blog:  There will be no Supreme Court review of Multi Time Machine, Inc. v. Amazon.com, Inc.,... Read more

Posted on December 18, 2018January 8, 2019 Likelihood of Confusion

Strong to save

Everyone knows that distinctiveness can be inherent or acquired, and that some kinds of trademarks — product-configuration trade dress, notably — can “never” be inherently... Read more

Posted on July 31, 2018August 24, 2018 Likelihood of Confusion

There’s a first time for everything

Jeremy Phillips reports on some “thought I’d seen it all” hijinx from the renowned European Court of F’rinstance: Although [the IPKat] e is generally reluctant to... Read more

Posted on January 7, 2016January 18, 2016 Likelihood of Confusion

Passing the Sambucks

(I have excised this from the larger omnibus posting below and added to it.) A woman named Samantha Buck tried to parlay the coincidence of... Read more

Coca-Cola Host of the Highways
Posted on January 30, 2015January 30, 2015 Likelihood of Confusion

Best of 2010: Drive-by infringement

Steve Baird says initial interest confusion is “the real thing” and in the process  seeks to “add life” to Professor McCarthy’s famous “evil highway road sign”... Read more

Posted on December 30, 2014January 2, 2015 Likelihood of Confusion

Pipe dreams

Popular Mechanics reports: “We were there first — by 10 years. Now I see a potential re-branding that could take years to complete,” says Universal... Read more

Posted on December 9, 2014March 24, 2015 Likelihood of Confusion

B&B Hardware: The TTAB, the trademark bloggers and the likelihood of preclusion (Updated)

A trademark case involving LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION (the legal thing, not the fun blog) got unusual Supreme Court attention last week, as you doubtless know by... Read more

Posted on May 29, 2014December 28, 2014 Likelihood of Confusion

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Posted on December 20, 2013December 18, 2013 Likelihood of Confusion

Best of 2013: Yelp for evidence

Originally published on March 5, 2013. Anonymous online comments as proof of a LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION at the preliminary injunction stage? Evan Brown explains: In a... Read more

Posted on October 8, 2013August 24, 2021 Genericness and Trademarks Likelihood of Confusion

Apostrophe now

Via Courthouse News, a report of a trademark lawsuit that I’d think were merely “apostrophal” if not for the fact that that august publication says it’s... Read more

Posted on September 3, 2013September 9, 2013 Likelihood of Confusion

Chasing confusion

This explains why it’s so hard for the rest of us to get legal work from Chase. Read more

Posted on December 30, 2012January 8, 2013 Likelihood of Confusion

TK-Oh for Anhauser-Busch, Bacardi

The New York Law Journal (sub. req.) reports on a big decision from the Second Circuit Court of Appeals: The U.S. Court of Appeals for... Read more

Posted on January 31, 2012November 15, 2013 Likelihood of Confusion

Char’ed, I’m sure (updated, again, November 2013)

Updated version of the post first found here on December 8, 2009.  Poor Starbucks.  So much trademark trouble they have!  Other trouble, too.  And now... Read more

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The question of whether consumers are likely to be confused is the signal inquiry that determines if a trademark infringement claim is valid. I write here about trademark law, copyright law, brands, free speech (mostly as it relates to the Internet and social media). That may sound like a lot, but it's just a blog.

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