Take it away and tank ‘er away, um TANQUERAY
Steve Baird, who for my money is pretty much the best one doing this on a regular basis these days, has this great post up... Read more
Category: Trademarks and trademark law
Grande, Venti, De Novo. (Starbucks VI)
Last week, while one giant was vindicated after years of litigation—even if its name was spelled “Goggle” on page 2 of Judge Chin’s decision—another was... Read more
… and Europe Strikes Back: Google Loss Upheld by French Court
A friend painfully close to the case forwarded this link reporting that Google has lost its appeal of a judgment for “trademark counterfeiting” against the... Read more
Great moments in trademark trolling
CrunchGear: With Nuvio suing Garmin’s Nuviphone on fairly spurious grounds, let’s take a look at famous trademark wars of times past. A little more on... Read more
The Defenestration of Bayport
This item’s title would be a good name for a “Hardy Boys” book, but no, we’re talking about Bayport, Minnesota, home of the Anderson Corporation,... Read more
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
Osama Kin Back in Brand Equity Play?
Joe Gandelman reports about a trademark story relating to the protection of the Bin Laden family name in Europe. No, not that Bin Laden —... Read more
Chasing confusion
This explains why it’s so hard for the rest of us to get legal work from Chase. Read more
Likelihood of — well, no, actually. Not.
At least in some parts of the country, LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION is something judges actually sometimes don’t find. Out there, for example. No, the other... 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
Judge Gets the Points
Rely on a disclaimer to avoid likelihood of confusion? Fat chance. Take the Second Circuit’s decision in Weight Watchers International Inc. v. Luigino’s Inc., fresh... Read more
Louis Vuitton on the receiving end
Two retailers have sued Louis Vuitton seeking a declaratory judgment of non-infringement in response to a cease and desist letter sent by the feisty French... Read more
The not so bright line
The preamble of the Lanham Act Section 2 is followed by six lower-case–lettered sections, the fifth of which contains four separately numbered “grounds” on which it... Read more
I’m a CYBERLAWYER, too!
Slashdot: BigTimOBrien writes to mention the EFF is reporting that self-proclaimed cyberlawyer, Eric Menhart, has decided to trademark use of the term “cyberlaw” and is... Read more