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 […]
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What Brown can do to you
Go figure: United Parcel Service Inc., the world’s largest package-delivery company, sued a lawyer in Lakewood, N.J., for trademark infringement. Samuel Z. Brown, of The […]
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Eat here, get gas. But not if you’re Jewish!
Yes, that’s the famous old joke on the roadside filling station sign. Well, not the second part. But evidently it’s not a laughing matter at […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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While my guitar gently weeps
One of the first posts on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION® was about Gibson Guitar Corp. v. Paul Reed Smith Guitars, LP, 70 UPSQ2d 1911 (M.D. Tenn. […]
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One cease and desist letter I won’t be sending
The AP reports that Disney could have some IP issues in a jurisdiction where, regrettably, I am not licensed to practice. Or to breathe: Hamas […]
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Trademark City
Originally posted 2013-04-25 21:53:48. Republished by Blog Post PromoterThe Strategic Name Development blog reports that the naming rights to the New York Mets’ new baseball […]
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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. […]
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What exactly is with the new trademark dilution bill?
(Email exchange off the INTA email list reprinted here with Mike Atkins’s permission;) From: Atkins, Michael G. Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 4:21 PM To: […]
Continue reading »Reverse Trademark Dilution?
Trademark dilution is something that happens when you use my “famous” trademark in a way that, while not necessarily threatening likelihood of confusion — because […]
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