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Tag: Brand Management and Branding

Posted on June 11, 2021 Buildings and IP

Best of 2006: Trademark City

The Strategic Name Development blog reports that the naming rights to the New York Mets’ new baseball stadium have been sold to Citigroup. The stadium... Read more

Posted on June 2, 2021 Fair Use

Best of 2013: Turning back that Crimson Tide

Originally published January 8, 2013 Trademark law does not trump the right to make and sell artistic depictions of real life after all, it turns... Read more

Posted on June 2, 2021 LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®

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... Read more

Posted on June 2, 2021 Copyright Law

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

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... Read more

Posted on June 2, 2021 Brand Management and Branding Trademarks and trademark law

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... Read more

Posted on June 2, 2021 IP Overreaching

More sports rent seeking from the hallowed halls of — oh, heck, it’s Alabama we’re talking about

Imagine a university claiming not only trademark rights in all “depictions” of its NCAA paid giant freak entertainment troupe Division IA football team? That would... Read more

Posted on June 2, 2021 IP Overreaching

Dumb bomb

Courthouse News Service picks up on a final ruling in a case that made everyone titter last fall: A Long Island man infringed on Pfizer’s... Read more

Posted on May 28, 2021 Fair Use

“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... Read more

Posted on May 28, 2021 Brand Management and Branding Copyright Law Fair Use Trademarks and trademark law

Zombie on zombie action

The Escapist (via Punning Pundit): In a battle that refuses to die, publisher Capcom filed a pre-emptive lawsuit against the Dawn of the Dead film... Read more

Posted on May 28, 2021 IP Overreaching

Best of 2008: “The Color Purple” (April)

This was first posted on April 14, 2008. Cadbury is purple in the face over not being able to secure the wordlwide exclusive rights to... Read more

Posted on May 28, 2021 Brand Management and Branding

It’s not easy being Green

The Strategic Name Development Product Naming Blog (they name your product better than they named their blog) says this was a bad week for the... Read more

Posted on May 28, 2021 Buildings and IP

No copyright in the fact of your existence

Whether someone else’s movie includes your building in Times Square (a properly defunct trademark claim) or, as Marty Schwimmer reports, your pinball machine in the... Read more

Posted on May 28, 2021 Brand Management and Branding Trademarks and trademark law

The color purple

Cadbury is purple in the face over not being able to secure the wordlwide exclusive rights to the use of the color purple in association... Read more

Posted on May 28, 2021 LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®

Settling in

Foley Square view Originally uploaded by Ron Coleman I took this view of Foley Square, where the courthouses and many other public buildings in Manhattan... Read more

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