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Category: Trademarks and trademark law

Posted on August 24, 2011March 23, 2017 Genericness and Trademarks

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

Posted on July 26, 2011August 2, 2011 Stealing the Language

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

Posted on June 28, 2011 Gray Market Trademarks and trademark law

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

Posted on June 7, 2011 Internet Law Trademarks and trademark law

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

Posted on May 23, 2011 Trademarks and trademark law

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

Posted on May 10, 2011May 17, 2011 Likelihood of Confusion

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

Posted on May 4, 2011May 8, 2011 Stealing the Language

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

Posted on April 11, 2011October 23, 2012 Brand Management and Branding Fashion Law Trademarks and trademark law

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

Snow White in her Coffin
Posted on March 28, 2011March 28, 2011 Stealing the Language

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

Posted on February 24, 2011 Brand Management and Branding Trademarks and trademark law

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

Posted on February 22, 2011March 2, 2011 Trademarks and trademark law

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

Posted on February 9, 2011October 25, 2012 Counterfeiting & Piracy Fashion Law Internet Law Trademarks and trademark law

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

Posted on December 27, 2010October 25, 2012 Counterfeiting & Piracy Fashion Law Trademarks and trademark law

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

Posted on December 21, 2010May 18, 2016 Trademarks and trademark law

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

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