New “knockoff news,” TM prosecution blog
Rob Holmes, anti-counterfeiting investigator to the stars, has revamped and retooled his blog — check out his Knockoff Report: News & Views in the World... Read more
Category: Trademark registration
Words matter (Best of 2017)
Originally posted on June 22, 2017. Words are almost everything in a trademark registration, notwithstanding that one drawing. Stick with me. It’s going to get... Read more
Gene Simmons gives the fingers to the PTO
Yes, it’s another pop star seeking to assert digital trademark rights. This time it’s senior citizen Gene Simmons of Kiss: If you were wondering, The... Read more
Trademark “use in interstate commerce” and the decline of federalism
What’s the use? Trademark use, that is. Heck, it’s getting harder to figure out what’s not “trademark use” these days, as John Welch reports: The... Read more
Blame it on chain
You’d think a catalog page would be a great way, in a trademark registration application, to show use of a trademark “in commerce” associated with... Read more
Land grab
General practitioners and even civilians can file their own trademarks if they want to, and it frequently works out okay. It usually is not the,... Read more
The best of intentions
Going to the well (i.e., other people’s blogs) again, and what better well than Duets Blog and Steve Baird? In a post a while ago... Read more
Wrong skillset for trademark registration
John Welch reports, at the TTABlog, about what you’d think would be a no-brainer: The Board affirmed a refusal to register the configuration shown below,... Read more
Sounds original!
From Dennis Crouch: Carl Oppedahl lost his case to register the mark “patents.com.” However, that setback did not dissuade him from continuing to push against trademark law... Read more
The deceptively simple process of “trademarking”
Somewhere, some time — I think, perhaps, it was in my contribution to this work, actually — I noted that with the advent of online... Read more