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Tag: Brand Management and Branding

Posted on July 2, 2022 Brand Management and Branding

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

Posted on June 4, 2022 Trademark registration

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

Parody Chik-fil-A Twitter
Posted on April 14, 2022 Parody and Satire

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

Posted on March 22, 2022 Buildings and IP

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

Posted on March 2, 2022March 4, 2022 Brand Management and Branding

Old trademarks never die…

They just fade away. Mostly. Originally posted 2013-10-29 12:56:20. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Read more

Posted on February 23, 2022 Brand Management and Branding

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

Posted on October 18, 2021 Brand Management and Branding Copyright Law

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

Posted on September 20, 2021 Startups

Locking it down

Every lawyer who practices in the intellectual property area is asked frequently how to go about protecting a unique or creative idea that someone fears... Read more

Posted on September 12, 2021 Rights of Publicity and Personality

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

Posted on August 26, 2021October 29, 2021 IP Overreaching

Trademarks, copyright, brand equity, and rent-seeking: Soapbox 2010

From last week’s INTA Trademark Topics email discussion list.  One name has been changed to protect the innocent, and the links, by way of annotation,... Read more

Posted on July 21, 2021 Brand Management and Branding Trademarks and trademark law

On the wrong track, as usual

Jews for Jesus, the sleazy, misleading missionaries who crawl over Manhattan each summer, had to back off from their use of the MTA’s world-famous symbols.... Read more

Posted on July 12, 2021 Brand Management and Branding

Those who are not with us today

CNN has a nice piece on “Brands We Loved and Lost in 2009.” Okay, we didn’t really “love” Home Depot’s Expo design centers and we... Read more

Posted on July 5, 2021 Brand Management and Branding

Big Green’s Ethiopian trademark problem

The Australian reports that earlier news about a resolution of Starbucks’ trademark problems with the Ethiopian coffee thing was perhaps over-caffeinated. UPDATE:  Have things perked... Read more

Hershey muffin pan
Posted on June 17, 2021 Genericness and Trademarks

Kissing trademark rights goodbye?

Eric Johnson‘s Pixelization blog has a sweet insight into a sticky trademark mess that Hershey’s could be, theoretically, getting itself into: It’s a Hershey’s-brand three-compartment... 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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