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Best of 2009: “While my guitar gently weeps”
This was first posted on March 31, 2009. One of the first posts on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION® was about Gibson Guitar Corp. v. Paul Reed Smith Guitars, LP, 70 UPSQ2d…
Best of 2007: That’s a wrap
Published on April 16, 2007. Forget about the IP rights in those MTA symbols — you can probably use them however you want, now. (Remember to read my disclaimer on…
Putt this in your pipe and smoke it
Putt-putt — miniature golf, right? Yes, but, PUTT-PUTT® — registered trademark for miniature golf services! Steve Baird explains: So, I learned two things this weekend, Adam Scott is the first…
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 the people who gave you…
“We cannot allow our brand to be abused”
Originally posted on November 13, 2008. What “brand” is that? The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. brand. The greed of the King “branders” was one of the earliest, and…
Uptick in cupcakes
Remember this bit about the CUPCAKERY trademark, vel non? Not long ago Ryan Gile, who’s all over this, reported ongoing developments in the case here. And this morning I retweeted…
Best of 2010: How Supreme Skateboard plays the edge
First posted on June 1, 2010. The new Case Clothesed blog out of New York Law School has a very interesting, if lightly sourced, piece about how Supreme Skateboard has…
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 broadcasts being incrementally excised from…
Best of 2010: If you see something… it’s probably “trademarked”
First published on May 12, 2010. A while ago, while obsessing about New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority and its obsession with turning what might have once merely been viewed as…
Best of 2010: The generic agony of defeat
First published on February 11, 2010. The best LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION® blog item title ever was evidently wasted — and I’m sorry I didn’t keep you quite so up to…
COICA: Big IP supersizes it
Everything I’ve written about here for the last five years, or just about everything, is about to get a lot worse, explains David Post: Congress is set to once again…
When your brand means just about nothing…
Ron Coleman… you’ll slap onto just about anything, I guess. Or perhaps in a virtually abandoned district of a virtually abandoned city — in this case, Cleveland — it’s more along…
Returning balance to the IP equation
My article, “Trademark, Copyright, and the Internet: Time to Return Balance to Civil Litigation” in the August 31, 2010 edition of the Federalist Society’s Engage magazine is now online. The…