South Korean court affirms ridiculous STARPREYA ruling
Michael Atkins gives us the post-mortem on this case that demonstrates what could delicately be called the home field advantage. Originally posted 2012-06-11 19:57:20. Republished... Read more
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Dimming star?
Ann Althouse: Starbucks used to seem like a luxury brand, and now it feels like a fallback when you can’t get to the real thing.... Read more
Rededication (Hannukah Blawg Review, 2009)
Welcome to Blawg Review. Cold, rainy, prematurely wintry greetings from metropolitan New York. No exclamation point. It has been that kind of year, it seems.... Read more
Best of 2012: When brands let us down
Originally posted on February 21, 2012. This was–I thought–my kind of blog post: a guest post on Duets Blog by graphic designer Ellie Drotning: When I... Read more
It is to laugh
In mid-December I wrote about the chuckles unintentionally provided to the Second Circuit during oral argument of the appeal by Louis Vuitton of the rejection of its... Read more
Rededication
Welcome to Blawg Review. Cold, rainy, prematurely wintry greetings from metropolitan New York. No exclamation point. It has been that kind of year, it seems.... Read more
Rededication (Archive post)
Welcome to Blawg Review. Cold, rainy, prematurely wintry greetings from metropolitan New York. No exclamation point. It has been that kind of year, it seems.... Read more
Passing the Sambucks
(I have excised this from the larger omnibus posting below and added to it.) A woman named Samantha Buck tried to parlay the coincidence of... Read more
Blurring away
It really does appear that trademark dilution, once the darling of federal judges seeking to enforce trademark rights in gross on behalf of markholders whose... Read more
Absolutely flawed
Michael Atkins, the estimable Seattle Trademark Lawyer (true, there are others!), writes on the subject both Matthew and I have written about at length here:... Read more
Frizzled trademark in Korea
The Seoul Central District Court rules that the trademark “The Magic School Bus” of SCHOLASTIC INC. in America is different from “School Bus” of DAE... Read more
Char’ed, I’m sure (updated, again, November 2013)
Updated version of the post first found here on December 8, 2009. Poor Starbucks. So much trademark trouble they have! Other trouble, too. And now... Read more
Blawg Review # 242
Welcome to Blawg Review. Cold, rainy, prematurely wintry greetings from metropolitan New York. No exclamation point. It has been that kind of year, it seems.... Read more
The other side of rent seeking
I have written often about the way trademark law plays out predictably along lines of classical rent-seeking. That is not a bad thing per se,... Read more