Foley vindicated
Remember Foley Hoag vs. Foley & Lardner? Stick a fork in it. It’s Foley cooked! UPDATE: No, not this Foley. Not vindicated; not quite. Talk... Read more
Tag: Brand Management and Branding
Mind bobbling!
I’ve been known to sound the alarm about the rush to register trademarks, and all the more so to register anticipated trademarks. I argue that... Read more
Foul ball?
[stextbox id=”alert”] UPDATE: Per Marty Schwimmer: Hyundai ran a commercial with humorous depictions of what it would be like if luxury items were widely available.... Read more
So shoe me!
Staci Riordan reports on the big shoe-vs.-shoe design lawsuit everyone’s talking about — invoking copyright plus one Lanham Act and two New York law varieties of... Read more
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... Read more
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... Read more
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.... Read more
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... Read more
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