Lawyer Ron Coleman on brands, the Internet & free speech
Originally published December 9, 2009. Now a heartwarming tradition of bloggy goodness. Instapundit links to this item about the incredible shrinking Charlie Brown specials — warmly-remembered favorite scenes from the…
First in a series of posts sampling comedic stylings of various standup comics that bulldoze through famous brands and their efforts at positioning. This first one, a somewhat hoary —…
Originally published December 9, 2009. Now a heartwarming tradition of bloggy goodness. Instapundit links to this item about the incredible shrinking Charlie Brown specials — warmly-remembered favorite scenes from the…
Originally published December 9, 2009. Now a heartwarming tradition of bloggy goodness. Instapundit links to this item about the incredible shrinking Charlie Brown specials — warmly-remembered favorite scenes from the…
The question, per last fall’s story, was this: Can you establish trademark rights in a flavor? The court said, unsurprisingly, “no.” As usual, I let someone better inclined to do…
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 broadcasts being incrementally excised from…
Originally posted on July 15, 2005. India doesn’t have a First Amendment, as such, but from what I read its free speech protections are similar to those in the West.…
First posted March 27, 2012. So, what happens when a trademark registration lapses? The post at the link, by Corsearch, is, yeah, kind of an advertisement for Corsearch. But it…
Or at least trademark logos. Context: If you’re over 50, you can probably remember when television commercials were mainly 60 seconds or 30 seconds. There were exceptions. But the premise…
So, what happens when a trademark registration lapses? The post at the link, by Corsearch, is, yeah, kind of an advertisement for Corsearch. But it features a great video that…
The last couple of weeks of the year or so I always re-post, with typical humility, the “Best of 2010.” I arrange it in a sort of month-by-month recapitulation. It’s…
I’ve written before about the emerging issues involving the use of trademarks in so-called virtual reality. There’s been a lot of buzz on the Internet lately about whether, and if…
And it isn’t the lawyers! Pointy-hat-tip to IP Notions.
William Lozito at Name Wire (the newly renamed “Product Naming Blog” — hurray!) reports on the Bolivia / COCA / Coca-Cola, er, dustup. He notes the unmistakable parallel with the…
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