Keeping it real: Bye-bye, Banksy
Trademarks are an open book — even for Banksy. One of the signal features of the United States trademark registration system is its openness. As... Read more
Category: Trademarks and trademark law
THE SLANTS trademark: The CAFC reply brief
If you’re following the excitement, you’ve already bookmarked and, presumably, shared with all your friends our initial Federal Circuit brief filed in support of the... Read more
Goldman Sachs, those big losers!
Remember Mike Morgan, the flaky sort who dast challenge the mighty Men of Gold? Now it’s over, like just another paid-back multi-billion dollar loan,... Read more
Immoral, scandalous and obsolete
"Trademarks" today are foisted on everyone, everywhere, all the time Read more
Pick your poison
Is it infringement or a breach of contract? Is it a license or an assignment? Well, whatever it is, it’s a little complicated, and Pamela... Read more
If this is the TTAB, that must not be fraud
Mostly by way of linking to posts by John Welch, I have for years been following the post-Bose decline of fraud on the PTO as... Read more
Mutilated marks
The TTABlog tracks the latest learning on “mutilated” (incomplete) trademarks, or at least purportedly incomplete ones. You just have to read John Welch’s blog on... Read more
The generic agony of defeat
The best LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION® blog item title ever was evidently wasted — and I’m sorry I didn’t keep you quite so up to date... Read more
Steal your plate
The Jews take a worldwide day off from eating, and what happens when they sit down and pick up their forks and knives to dig... Read more
What a Croc!
I don’t report on every dumb trademark lawsuit, because the really goofy ones involving famous companies usually end up getting mainstream press and big-time blog... Read more
Not safe for home
Boing Boing reports on a topic that is an old favorite here: The seemingly-dormant “obscene and scandalous” bar to trademark registration. Here’s one that didn’t... Read more
Best of 2010: Sealed with a fist
First posted August 4, 2010. I kvetch a lot about the mania for dubious “IP enforcement” by government agencies such as New York’s Metropolitan Transit... Read more
Bates and hooks
Bates numbering, that is. As a litigator, I’ve been living with Bates-numbering, or Bates-stamping, for over 20 years. (I’m not the only one!) I have... Read more
Today: ABA CLE Webinar on Disparaging Trademark Rejections at the PTO
Hurry up and register for this webinar , in which LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION® (that’s me) will be participating as comic relief, on the topic of the... Read more