Facing the music
It’s war over the trademark for Facebook! Greenspan, 25, argues Zuckerberg, 23, had no right to trademark the Facebook name in 2005 because the term... Read more
Category: Trademarks and trademark law
Foley vindicated
Remember Foley Hoag vs. Foley & Lardner? Stick a fork in it. It’s Foley cooked! UPDATE: No, not this Foley. Not vindicated; not quite. Talk... Read more
Foul ball?
Louis Vuitton Malletier and its lawyers demonstrate how to make sure a few seconds of what they say is trademark dilution get a lot less... Read more
Naming Names
The ultimate branding device is a person’s name, although the oft-stated truism that “every man is entitled to do business under his own name” is... Read more
What Brown can do to you
Go figure: United Parcel Service Inc., the world’s largest package-delivery company, sued a lawyer in Lakewood, N.J., for trademark infringement. Samuel Z. Brown, of The... Read more
Eat here, get gas. But not if you’re Jewish!
Yes, that’s the famous old joke on the roadside filling station sign. Well, not the second part. But evidently it’s not a laughing matter at... Read more
Acquiring distinction
Tim, of the JoshueTree blog, asks a great question in the comments to this post: Can one of you help me…I’m a confused Trademark student.... Read more
Go chutzpa!
GoDaddy, better than anyone, realizes that the margins in domain sales are slim and getting slimmer. Economics teaches us that in a perfectly competitive market,... Read more
Jiggering it out at the PTO
Oh, to be a hip, Jewish intellectual… property owner. Stick with me here. A while back I was following the story of the PTO’s refusal... Read more
DC and Marvel — still winning Super Friends
John Welch has a report about an applicant for a SUPER HERO trademark registration for skin care productswho was bounced because, well, the owners of... Read more
While my guitar gently weeps
One of the first posts on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION® was about Gibson Guitar Corp. v. Paul Reed Smith Guitars, LP, 70 UPSQ2d 1911 (M.D. Tenn.... Read more
Comments from another blog; or, Did I get chocolate in Marty’s peanut butter?
Via Marty Schwimmer’s Trademark Blog: Marty, you got peanut butter in my chocolate! You’re considering the respective design and layout choices in isolation, seriatim, rather... Read more
“Truth made you a trader, as it often does in a time of scoundrels”
And it is words such as these that follow that are the first refuge of trademark scoundrels. If you are a trademark attorney, sit down... Read more
Best of 2008: “Designer Skin v. S&L Continued: ‘S&L had a perfect right to sell this product'” (July)
This was first posted on July 18th: Unfortunately for future defendants in the position of our client, Internet retailer S&L, U.S. District Judge James Teilborg’s... Read more