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
Ron Coleman on the law affecting brands, the Internet & free speech
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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