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
Category: Trademarks and trademark law
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
Not Safe For Witlessness
Techcrunch: I’d think this was a joke, except for the USPTO entry. Fark has lodged a trademark application for the term “Not Safe For Work.”... Read more
Commented on “The Trademark Blog” — Polo v. Polo
Marty Schwimmer (via @trademarkblog) updates us on the latest, and floats a novel idea of his own for getting in on the action, in the... Read more
The fairest one of all?
Last week we were talking about the issue of copyright morphing into trademark. Well, how about public domain morphing into copyright, and then trademark?... Read more
Q the Lawyers
A report in the online Financial Express says that Nissan is suing Audi over “Q.” To wit: “We are seeking to bar Audi from using... Read more
A 3-D trademark – Taipei 101
Markenbusiness News reports: Skyscrapers can not only be landmarks, they can also be trademarks as well. That has now been made clear by the owners... Read more
Not all ISP’s are created equal
@EricGoldman: Web host Akanoc hit with $32M contributory TM judgment for customers’ counterfeiting http://bit.ly/3BR6ZW Whoa. More to come … Louis Vuitton v. Akanoc jury verdict... Read more
Best of 2010: How Supreme Skateboard plays the edge
First posted on June 1, 2010. The new Case Clothesed blog out of New York Law School has a very interesting, if lightly sourced, piece about... Read more
Best of 2010: The generic agony of defeat
First published on February 11, 2010. The best LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION® blog item title ever was evidently wasted — and I’m sorry I didn’t keep... Read more