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Posted on October 17, 2019 Culture Clash

Fishy business

Funny things happen to trademarks in the Casbah.  John Burgess at the Crossroads Arabia blog has a story about a recent incident of Saudi Arabia’s... Read more

Posted on September 20, 2019 Brand Management and Branding Trademarks and trademark law

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

Posted on February 12, 2019 Brand Management and Branding

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

Posted on December 3, 2018December 3, 2018 Roundups

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

Posted on January 25, 2017 Parody and Satire

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

Posted on December 26, 2016December 26, 2016 Roundups

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

Posted on December 26, 2016December 19, 2017 Roundups

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

Posted on January 7, 2016January 18, 2016 Likelihood of Confusion

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

Posted on January 3, 2014 Trademark Dilution

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

Posted on December 10, 2013December 17, 2013 Trademark Dilution

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

Posted on November 28, 2012December 4, 2012 Genericness and Trademarks

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

Posted on January 31, 2012November 15, 2013 Likelihood of Confusion

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

Posted on December 13, 2009December 3, 2018 Roundups

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

Posted on September 21, 2009 LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®

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

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The question of whether consumers are likely to be confused is the signal inquiry that determines if a trademark infringement claim is valid. I write here about trademark law, copyright law, brands, free speech (mostly as it relates to the Internet and social media). That may sound like a lot, but it's just a blog.

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