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Category: Trademarks and trademark law

Posted on April 20, 2010April 23, 2010 Trademarks and trademark law

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

Posted on March 17, 2010March 23, 2010 Brand Management and Branding 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

Posted on March 2, 2010October 23, 2012 Brand Management and Branding Fashion Law Trademarks and trademark law

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

Posted on January 22, 2010January 26, 2010 Trademarks and trademark law

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

Posted on December 2, 2009December 5, 2009 Brand Management and Branding Trademarks and trademark law

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

Posted on December 2, 2009December 2, 2009 Brand Management and Branding Trademarks and trademark law

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

Posted on October 30, 2009August 25, 2016 Trademarks and trademark law

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

Posted on October 22, 2009October 24, 2009 Internet Law Trademarks and trademark law

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

Posted on September 21, 2009September 11, 2017 Section 2(a)

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

Posted on August 26, 2009January 27, 2015 Stealing the Language

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

Posted on March 31, 2009November 25, 2010 Brand Management and Branding Trademarks and trademark law

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

Posted on March 24, 2009November 26, 2015 Genericness and Trademarks

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

Posted on January 11, 2009December 7, 2016 Trademarks and trademark law

“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

Posted on December 29, 2008May 28, 2010 Brand Management and Branding Copyright Law Internet Law Trademarks and trademark law

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

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