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Tag: Disparaging Trademarks

Posted on February 17, 2022 IP Institutions

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... Read more

Posted on June 2, 2021 Likelihood of Confusion

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... Read more

Posted on March 18, 2021March 18, 2021 Brand Management and Branding

Brands, cancel culture & disparaging trademarks

Cancel culture proves that disparaging trademarks go away by themselves Read more

Posted on September 20, 2019 Section 2(a)

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... Read more

Posted on October 8, 2013October 31, 2013 Section 2(a)

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... Read more

Posted on September 21, 2009September 11, 2017 Section 2(a)

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... 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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