Don’t bother, they’re here
President Obama is suffering from the right-of-publicity blues again. And now maybe we understand why he wants an intellectual property anti-counterfeiting lawyer on the Supreme... Read more
Category: Trademarks and trademark law
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
Best of 2010: Gucci v. Frontline Processing: Giving credit for infringement where it’s due
First posted July 12, 2010. [stextbox id=”info”]This is an adaptation of a summary and analysis of the recent decision in Gucci America, Inc. v. Frontline... Read more
Keeping it real — the ultimate use in commerce
The TTABlog® reports, again, on the fraud issue, but that’s not what interests me here so much this time. Rather, it’s the question of the... Read more
Heartbreaking
I’ve expressed my opinion here about the piggish IP grabbing by Big College Sports. So I enjoyed this from Mark Malek: This is an update... Read more
Frizzled trademark in Korea
[stextbox id=”info”] I received the following in the form of a newsletter from the Book Chon law firm in South Korea. I get a lot... Read more
Best of 2008: “‘Scandalousness’ Remains a Lightning Rod at the TTAB'” (September)
This was posted on September 24, 2008: John Welch reports on an interesting, not quite safe for home viewing case called Boston Red Sox Baseball... Read more
Shot to Dell
Dell’s CLOUD COMPUTING trademark application has gone up in a vapory mass of smoke: Dell cannot register “cloud computing” as a trademark because the term... Read more
Trademarks in their entirety
It is a well-known axiom that when considering the validity or infringement of a trademark, it is to be considered in its entirety — not... Read more
Best of 2009: “Intellectual property and its digestion”
This was first posted on February 20, 2009: Back and forth in in social networking space — once Facebook, I digest some key ingredients of... Read more
Art for IP’s sake
Or, rather, the opposite: Wendy Seltzer reports that a modified Google logo posted on April 20th, in the style of a Joan Miro painting and... Read more
Keyword advertising law à la française
Google wins! LVMH wins! Only it’s the same case. And they’re on opposite sides. Is this as Euro-law thing? Something particularly Frankish? No, it’s an... Read more
Get out of jail, postage due
Bob Ambrogi reports on some cease-and-desist follies involving GET OUT OF JAIL FREE and Mr. Monopoly, which of course are the intellectual property of the... Read more
It’s that time of day
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. Duets Blog reports on an all-too rare occurrence in an item entitled, just a bit too... Read more