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
Tag: Brand Management and Branding
SUPER HERO® my foot
UPDATE: Our NPR interview on this topic was on NPR’s “All Things Considered” just before 6 tonight. We blogged on this topic last week. Today... Read more
More on toy models as trademark infringements
Ara Rubyan sends along this link to Boing Boing: Josh sez, “The folks at BMC (Black Mustang Club) automotive forum wanted to put together a... Read more
McDonald’s considers IP protection for anticipated move into sale of actual food
The story they’re all talking about on barely-middlebrow talk radio today: McDonalds tries to patent sandwich-making — or, rather, a sandwich-making McGuffin for its Egg... Read more
Chippendales shimmies up to the Circuit
Hot (if unlike LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION® you go for that sort of thing) off the presses — here’s the appellate brief in the Chippendale’s appeal of... Read more
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... Read more
Chris Creamer’s Sports Logos Page
SportsLogos.Net — very interesting! Hat tip to MarkenBlog. Tuesday is “pitchers and catchers“! Originally posted 2010-01-12 23:59:29. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Read more
Urban Smear
We’ve blogged on graffiti before. Wordsmith to the stars Jane Genova reports on a little commercial free speech applied a bit too freely — as... Read more
Through WINDOWS®, darkly
Mr. Thorne, legal marketing wordsmith extraordinaire, wonders: Why would a court opinion use the magic ® symbol to refer to one registered trademark and not... Read more
Please unfollow
Is it me? I don’t think it’s me. Originally posted 2019-08-09 12:03:09. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Read more
The Sound of silence
Michael Atkins is beside himself with intellectual-property-enforcement frustration about the use of an image of the Seattle Space Needle — a tall pointy building what... Read more
Old trademarks never die…
They just fade away. Mostly. Originally posted 2013-10-29 12:56:20. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Read more
Slamming the DOORS
History repeating and all, ya know. First time, tragedy. Second time — farce. Originally posted 2010-08-10 17:08:46. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Read more
Hitler on copyright
The “Downfall parodies” aren’t really parodies, in the legal sense. But as this one demonstrates, “Hitler” does seem to understand something about copyright, law, IP... Read more