
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
Lawyer Ron Coleman on brands, the Internet & free speech
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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