Trademark rights in interdigitization
Nick Daly drops me a note to the effect that one Jay-Z, gazillionaire rhyming scatologist, has been sued by a professional perspirer and leaping stage... Read more
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Putting trademark in the corner
Catchphrases such as THREE-PEAT with no coherent secondary meaning and no meaningful trademark identity are one of the really galling misuses of trademarks these days.... Read more
A Theory of Trademarks in the Blog Era
(Edited to reflect the march of time.) On April 5th, as you were previously warned, I presented in New York City as part of a... Read more
Vuitton beats Google on home court
The International Herald Tribune reports: Louis Vuitton, the luxury goods manufacturer, won another round Wednesday in its court battle with the search engine Google to... Read more
LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION® in 2006: “Is Google a utility?”
I posted this in August, 2006. I don’t think the question has been answered yet: We wrote about the Kinderstart lawsuit against Google, claiming an... Read more
Verb That Adjective Noun! “Google” Is Not (Yet) Generic.
It was bound to happen sooner or later—and in fact it happened back in 2012. Someone sued to have “Google” declared generic and the registration... Read more
Google me this II
We blogged a week or so ago (before I got bogged down in this trial — still in progress [UPDATE]) about Google’s trademark challenges. Here’s... Read more
Google adwords hell breaks loose. Yay!
The Google / ad words / trademarks story, long a mainstay of LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®, may end up needing a blog of its own, so... Read more
To Photoshop; perchance, to Google
p0ps blog quotes Adobe: “The Photoshop trademark must never be used as a common verb or as a noun. The Photoshop trademark should always be... Read more
Google tumult
I’ve been focusing on Google and its ersatz trademark policy, but meanwhile the Google copyright train — arguably the bigger story — has left the... Read more
Secondary Trademark Infringement treatise updated for 2010-11
From the Overview to the update of Secondary Trademark Infringement by Jane Coleman, which is now complete: Of all the contexts in which secondary liability has... Read more
Google a utility? Not the way we thought
I asked the following question more than a little while back in connection with the Kinderstart lawsuit against Google, which asserted a supposed right to a... Read more
Reverse Trademark Dilution?
Trademark dilution is something that happens when you use my “famous” trademark in a way that, while not necessarily threatening likelihood of confusion — because... Read more
INTA Annual Meeting – a century of trademarks
Good meeting. San Francisco is a good location, even if it isn’t providing us good weather. Everything is walkable; the Moscone Center is human sized... Read more