Brand Management and Branding – LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™

Likelihood of arrogation

Posted on October 17, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Out of the bottle Originally uploaded by Ron Coleman The ad man or woman who wrote this ad for Solgar focused on the market-encroaching challenger […]

Brand Management and Branding

Virtually Aimee

Posted on October 17, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Virtually Blind, a blog by Benjamin Duranske focusing on legal issues in virtual reality, reports (via IBLS): Second Life’s ‘Aimee Weber’ (Alyssa LaRoche) recently became […]

Brand Management and Branding, Trademarks and trademark law

M-I-C . . . see you in court!

Posted on October 13, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Could there be a mouse hole in Mickey’s larder? The Los Angeles Times reports: All signs pointed to a Hollywood ending with Disney and Mickey […]

Emerson InSinkErator trash compactors will mangle your hand if you stick it in one of them.

Posted on September 20, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2006-10-19 13:44:39. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Sounds like a reasonable assertion, right? The same thing will happen if you stick your hand […]

Free Expression

South Korean court affirms ridiculous STARPREYA ruling

Posted on September 20, 2019 by Ron Coleman

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 […]

Brand Management and Branding, Trademarks and trademark law

How Supreme Skateboard plays the edge

Posted on September 20, 2019 by Ron Coleman

The new Case Clothesed blog out of New York Law School has a very interesting, if lightly sourced, piece about how Supreme Skateboard has managed for […]

Counterfeiting & Piracy, Fashion Law, Trademarks and trademark law

Dough, a dear

Posted on September 20, 2019 by Ron Coleman

The Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man wreaked some havoc in his time, but who would have thought that his inspiration — the Pillsbury Doughboy — would act […]

Brand Management and Branding, Trademarks and trademark law

Best of 2009: “While my guitar gently weeps”

Posted on September 20, 2019 by Ron Coleman

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 […]

Product Configuration

“Private Label Store Brand OTC Naming Architecture”!

Posted on September 20, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Now that’s a mouthful, eh? Yes, that is one ba-a-a-ad phrase to have handy for your next trademarks-and-branding over pigs-in-blankets soirÃ©e! Oh… you don’t… know what […]

Private Labels

Decline and Fall

Posted on September 18, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Counterfeit Chic reports on yet another indignity visited on the famous girl singer who is presently popular culture’s most pathetic public death spiral: a European […]

Brand Management and Branding, Fashion Law