New law of trademark dilution
My old friends at Kaye Scholer (link fixed!) give you the skinny on the new Trademark Dilution Act. Bottom line: Good for big companies. Not so... Read more
Category: Trademarks and trademark law
Candy-coated popcorn, peanuts and a prize! That’s what you get from —
Roller derby! Quinn Heraty reports on the trademark battle to make us forget SPAM v. Spamarrest — the CRACKERJACK derby: Frito-Lay has filed an opposition... Read more
Uplifting blog post on trademark protection
How to get that ® to rise above it all in Microsoft Word. Originally posted 2014-08-18 11:21:22. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Read more
Belmora’s U.S. Supreme Court certiorari reply brief in the FLANAX case
Originally posted 2017-02-08 17:12:15. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Read more
Back from the void
In trademarks, generic is generic is generic. That’s what makes it generic. But there’s a difference between a would-be trademark that is born generic and... Read more
Trademark Modernization Act!
There we were, all locked down in our houses and not going to the INTA Annual Meeting, and there was a Trademark Modernization Act! Of... Read more
Erik Pelton tracks trademark trends
My friend Erik Pelton reviewed the big news in trademarks during 2017 in this post from the first week in January. Highlights, compressed by me —... Read more
Kissing trademark rights goodbye?
Eric Johnson‘s Pixelization blog has a sweet insight into a sticky trademark mess that Hershey’s could be, theoretically, getting itself into: It’s a Hershey’s-brand three-compartment... Read more
Two famous IP questions answered in one lawsuit
Anton Hopen reports that GM won an important verdict in a trademark case involving a toy Hummer. The jury awarded over a million and a... Read more
To Photoshop; perchance, to Google
p0ps blog quotes Adobe: “The Photoshop trademark must never be used as a common verb or as a noun. The Photoshop trademark should always be... Read more
Best of 2010: An opinion to Di for
First posted on May 5, 2010. I do a lot of bellyaching around here about how there are never any consequences for filing frivolous trademark... Read more
Bag It
Remember Vuitton v. Dooney? It’s over. Reports the Shiny Style blog: A judge ruled in favor of Dooney & Bourke in the trademark dispute involving... Read more
Posner won’t butter up Dairy Maiden: In trademark dilution, fame isn’t everything
There is a puzzling aspect to much of what emits from U.S. Circuit Court Judge Richard Posner, he of the “strange new respect” earned on... Read more
Jews for Jesus Redux (or, the Second Filing)
Jews for Jesus sues Google over blog SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Christian evangelical group Jews for Jesus is suing Google Inc., saying a Web log... Read more