Mutilated marks
The TTABlog tracks the latest learning on “mutilated” (incomplete) trademarks, or at least purportedly incomplete ones. You just have to read John Welch’s blog on […]
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Two Chinas policy
This item from Focus Taiwan didn’t end quite the way I expected it to: A group of legislators expressed grave concern Thursday about rampant infringements […]
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The Kinderstart lawsuit over Google search engine placement has been dismissed, with leave granted to amend.
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Hold the center!
John Thomas at the Pittsburgh IP Law Blog picks up on an interesting phenomenon concerning center-centric trademark registration applications: If the mark you are trying […]
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Continue reading » Google using trademark policy to shield MoveOn?
(UPDATED, revised). That’s what Bob Cox is reporting in this story in the Examiner; more here. Google said it would not run anti-MoveOn ads because […]
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Gadget goes gonzo
Updated (see below) in September, 2011: Firefly Digital explains the vision behind their, um, trademarks — including the one they claim a little outfit called […]
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Fair use is for “E”veryone
The IP Rights and Games blog gets my attention with a little proprietary link-and-wink (are we becoming the “brand” for LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION?! I sure […]
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More intel on genericness, or a parody of trademark rights
Originally posted 2013-02-27 12:25:04. Republished by Blog Post PromoterSometimes you can build up trademark rights, even spectacularly valuable ones, in a word that subsequently becomes […]
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Golden Nugget: Request for proposal
I’m requesting that the Golden Nugget casino accept a proposal from me — I want to handle their cost-effectiveness-be-damned domain trademark enforcement program! Ryan Gile […]
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Continue reading » Grey is OK
The Business Review (Albany) reports (reg. required) on what could be a very important decision relating to the importation of grey goods: The U.S. Court […]
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Trademark do it yourself?
Aaron Franklin, co-founder of LazyMeter — an intriguing project that’s still in Beta but is not what it sounds like — writes as follows on Seattle […]
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Continue reading » Looking smarter
An interesting development on the search-engine trademark infringement beat: In a weird development that looked impossible two years back, search engine giant Google Inc. last […]
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Continue reading » MLB, IP piggies, strike again
Susan Scafidi writes about a guy who was stopped by Major League Baseball from selling “baseball shirts” that look like this (on the right): Huh? […]
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Sophisticated means not stupid. Not stupid means not likely to be confused.
Are we confused yet? The New York Law Journal reports on a recent Southern District of New York opinion which gave people with milliions of […]
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