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Category: Trademarks and trademark law

Posted on January 31, 2012November 15, 2013 Likelihood of Confusion

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

Posted on January 25, 2012January 27, 2012 False Advertising

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

Posted on January 20, 2012 Genericness and Trademarks

More on the SUPER HEROES®

Attorney Brian Cronin opines on the topic of the SUPER HEROES trademark for The Comic Wire. Read more

Posted on December 27, 2011 Stealing the Language

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

Posted on November 13, 2011 Trademarks and trademark law

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

Posted on October 12, 2011December 28, 2014 Trademarks and trademark law

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

Posted on September 27, 2011September 27, 2011 Stealing the Language

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

Posted on August 26, 2011 Trademarks and trademark law

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

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

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