Coca-Cola, Bolivia and all that
William Lozito at Name Wire (the newly renamed “Product Naming Blog” — hurray!) reports on the Bolivia / COCA / Coca-Cola, er, dustup. He notes... Read more
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Trademarks in the age of 140 characters or less
Or at least trademark logos. Context: If you’re over 50, you can probably remember when television commercials were mainly 60 seconds or 30 seconds. There... Read more
Bad for branding, worse for trade secrets
Pesticides in soft drinks, that is. Or even allegations of them. Boing Boing reports that a court in India has ordered Pepsi and Coke to... Read more
Magnesium ad nauseum
Ryan Gile reports that it’s Coke vs. Pepsi on behalf of their sport-drink proxies, Gatorade and Powerade: Coke’s advertising . . . makes the claim... Read more
Tweetmark infringement
When I first retired from my utter misuse of Twitter (it was all the rage!), I did so by politely bidding farewell to my 500 or... Read more
Pleas entered for illegal trafficking of Coke®; plus Ice
The bad people who tried to peddle internal Coca-Cola trade secrets, including samples of a new drink, to Pepsi — only to have Pepsi turn... Read more
Drive-by infringement
Steve Baird says initial interest confusion is “the real thing” and in the process seeks to “add life” to Professor McCarthy’s famous “evil highway road sign”... Read more
Unlikely to confuse
Check out, and think about, this post by John Welch and, of course, the article he’s writing about, one of whose authors is Barton Beebe,... Read more
Coke adds Second Life?
I’ve written before about the emerging issues involving the use of trademarks in so-called virtual reality. There’s been a lot of buzz on the Internet... Read more
American Brandstand
Marty Schwimmer (who is a brand unto himself) links to the “American Brandstand” report published by an interesting outfit called AgendaInc. The report runs down... Read more
The (Lang) Van guards of the proletariat (updated)
Remember when Vietnam was communist and stuff? Probably not. Well, I do. And yes, I look it. And yes, GET OFF MY LAWN! Anyway, even... Read more
Best of LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®: Nuts to us? Or a “real” Charlie Brown Christmas?
Originally published December 9, 2009. Instapundit links to this item about the incredible shrinking Charlie Brown specials — warmly-remembered favorite scenes from the annual Peanut... Read more
Best of LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®: Nuts to us? Or a “real” Charlie Brown Christmas?
Originally published December 9, 2009. Now a heartwarming tradition of bloggy goodness. Instapundit links to this item about the incredible shrinking Charlie Brown specials —... Read more
Best of 2009: Nuts to us? Or a “real” Charlie Brown Christmas?
Originally published December 9, 2009. Instapundit links to this item about the incredible shrinking Charlie Brown specials — warmly-remembered favorite scenes from the annual Peanut... Read more