Euroids – LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™

Very popular in France

Posted on November 1, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2009-09-21 22:24:55. Republished by Blog Post PromoterMike Masnick: Google is being fined hundreds of thousands of euros for allowing certain trademarked [sic] words […]

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Middle-aged bombshell blasted by trademark holder

Posted on October 17, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2010-03-09 20:56:20. Republished by Blog Post PromoterExplosive story: Looks like some trademark trouble for an evidently fissionable material girl. UPDATE: Resolved in a […]

Brand Management and Branding, LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®

Stickup over smiley

Posted on October 17, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2009-10-02 14:50:28. Republished by Blog Post Promoter The LA Times reports: Wal-Mart Stores Inc., which uses a yellow happy face to try to […]

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Key decision

Posted on October 17, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2009-03-19 15:28:05. Republished by Blog Post Promoter“Google makes money not by reason of the nature of the keyword, but by someone clicking on […]

Fair Use, Internet Law, Trademarks and trademark law

Decline and Fall

Posted on September 18, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2009-12-03 23:27:21. Republished by Blog Post PromoterCounterfeit Chic reports on yet another indignity visited on the famous girl singer who is presently popular […]

Brand Management and Branding, Fashion Law

Will Europe save America this time?

Posted on November 28, 2018 by Ron Coleman

Europe just might save Americans’ free speech and effectively our democracy by its willingness to act against Facebook

Free Expression

There’s a first time for everything

Posted on July 31, 2018 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2010-01-03 19:46:16. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Jeremy Phillips reports on some “thought I’d seen it all” hijinx from the renowned European Court of […]

Likelihood of Confusion

An emphatic NO!

Posted on November 28, 2017 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2014-09-08 18:10:23. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Chatty Kathy: German designer Wolfgang Joop’s bid to have a punctuation mark trademarked [sic] for his […]

Fashion Law

European trademark law swinging from vines

Posted on November 2, 2017 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2011-06-13 23:10:33. Republished by Blog Post PromoterUnlike in the good old U.S. of A., Tarzan’s yell doesn’t cut it in Europe — at […]

Trademarks and trademark law

The color purple

Posted on May 20, 2016 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2015-06-19 15:13:46. Republished by Blog Post PromoterCadbury is purple in the face over not being able to secure the wordlwide exclusive rights to […]

Brand Management and Branding, Trademarks and trademark law

But, of course

Posted on May 5, 2014 by Ron Coleman

Shoes are dropping all over Europe: L’Oreal, the world’s largest cosmetics group, has launched legal action against eBay, alleging the online auctioneer does not do […]

Counterfeiting & Piracy, Fashion Law, Trademarks and trademark law

… and Europe Strikes Back: Google Loss Upheld by French Court

Posted on November 14, 2013 by Ron Coleman

A friend painfully close to the case forwarded this link reporting that Google has lost its appeal of a judgment for “trademark counterfeiting” against the […]

Internet Law, Trademarks and trademark law

Best of 2008: “The Color Purple” (April)

Posted on May 1, 2013 by Ron Coleman

This was first posted on April 14, 2008. Cadbury is purple in the face over not being able to secure the wordlwide exclusive rights to […]

IP Overreaching

Keyword advertising law Ã la franÃ§aise

Posted on April 29, 2012 by Ron Coleman

Google wins! LVMH wins! Only it’s the same case. And they’re on opposite sides. Is this as Euro-law thing? Something particularly Frankish? No, it’s an […]

Trademarks and trademark law