I’ve written, as is my wont, at great length regarding my skepticism about the “family of trademarks” concept. Well, once you’ve digested that, you may want to head over to Property, intangible, where Pamela Chestak — as is her wont — does some pretty darned heavy lifting on what seems to me to be a related idea:
It may make business sense to put ownership of related trademarks in different subsidiaries. Under In re Wella, one can generally register similar marks owned by sibling companies, as long as it’s done properly.
But In re Koolatron Corp. discloses a risk I hadn’t thought about before, that is, that the registrations won’t serve the function of preventing the registration of the same or similar marks. How is that, you say?
You may need a chart to follow this one, but if you register trademarks for money, it’s probably worth doing so.
Originally posted 2010-11-11 23:59:08. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Ron: you stole my “Family of Marx” joke. Are you related to Milton Berle?
Take a look, buster — my date of first use is May 2009.
I called you out on this a long time ago!!