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Tag: Brand Management and Branding

If You See Something, Say Something
Posted on May 12, 2010April 16, 2012 Brand Management and Branding Trademarks and trademark law

If you see something… it’s probably “trademarked”

A while ago, while obsessing about New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority and its obsession with turning what might have once merely been viewed as functional... Read more

Posted on March 17, 2010March 23, 2010 Brand Management and Branding Trademarks and trademark law

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

Posted on March 9, 2010April 4, 2017 Licensing

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

Posted on March 2, 2010October 23, 2012 Brand Management and Branding Fashion Law Trademarks and trademark law

Foul ball?

Louis Vuitton Malletier and its lawyers demonstrate how to make sure a few seconds of what they say is trademark dilution get a lot less... Read more

Posted on December 23, 2009October 28, 2013 Fashion Law

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

Posted on December 2, 2009December 5, 2009 Brand Management and Branding Trademarks and trademark law

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

Posted on December 2, 2009December 2, 2009 Brand Management and Branding Trademarks and trademark law

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

Posted on October 20, 2009October 21, 2009 Brand Management and Branding

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... Read more

Posted on March 31, 2009November 25, 2010 Brand Management and Branding Trademarks and trademark law

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

Posted on May 9, 2007February 25, 2010 Brand Management and Branding

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

Posted on November 15, 2006February 21, 2016 Buildings and IP

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

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The question of whether consumers are likely to be confused is the signal inquiry that determines if a trademark infringement claim is valid. I write here about trademark law, copyright law, brands, free speech (mostly as it relates to the Internet and social media). That may sound like a lot, but it's just a blog.

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