Brands, cancel culture & disparaging trademarks
Ron ColemanCancel culture proves that disparaging trademarks go away by themselves
Impaneled in Seattle
I’m here now for tomorrow’s McCarthy Institute and Microsoft Corporation Symposium, “Trademark Law and Its Challenges 2017” at the Amazon Corporate Conference Center. My panel looks like this: 9:50AM-11:00AM Trademark…
B&B Hardware: Beyond Nuts and Bolts
I’d promised I’d wait on this, but I couldn’t, and you’ll see why. Here’s my take on today’s Supreme Court decision in B&B Hardware v. Hargis Industries Inc., which —…
Slant on The Slants
Everybody can have an IP blog. But hardly anybody, it seems, is prepared to do the work required to blog. I refer now to the decision in The Slants case,…
Jiggering it out at the PTO
Oh, to be a hip, Jewish intellectual… property owner. Stick with me here. A while back I was following the story of the PTO’s refusal to register the mark NIGGA.…
Jiggering it out at the PTO
Originally published on September 21, 2009. Oh, to be a hip, Jewish intellectual… property owner. Stick with me here. A while back I was following the story of the PTO’s…