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
Category: Trademarks and trademark law
Survey says….
Here’s a very good article by Arnold & Porter’s Randy Miller, strictly for trademark lawyers and those who encamp around them, on the Advertising Compliance website... Read more
More on the SUPER HEROES®
Attorney Brian Cronin opines on the topic of the SUPER HEROES trademark for The Comic Wire. Read more
Best of 2011: Golden Nugget: Request for proposal
Originally posted July 26, 2011. I’m requesting that the Golden Nugget casino accept a proposal from me — I want to handle their cost-effectiveness-be-damned domain... Read more
Creeping famous-mark-ism
The TTABlog comments on a TTAB decision finding, not surprisingly, that two similar looking trademarks are likely to be confused, but raises a key point... Read more
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... Read more
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... Read more
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... Read more
More intel on genericness, or a parody of trademark rights
Sometimes you can build up trademark rights, even spectacularly valuable ones, in a word that subsequently becomes a part of the English language. That’s what... Read more
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... Read more
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... Read more
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... Read more
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?... Read more
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... Read more