Decline and Fall
Counterfeit Chic reports on yet another indignity visited on the famous girl singer who is presently popular culture’s most pathetic public death spiral: a European... Read more
Tag: Euroids
But, of course
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... Read more
Best of 2008: “The Color Purple” (April)
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... Read more
The color purple
Cadbury is purple in the face over not being able to secure the wordlwide exclusive rights to the use of the color purple in association... Read more
European trademark law swinging from vines
Unlike in the good old U.S. of A., Tarzan’s yell doesn’t cut it in Europe — at least not as a trademark: Tarzan’s distinctive yell... Read more
Will Europe save America this time?
Europe just might save Americans' free speech and effectively our democracy by its willingness to act against Facebook Read more
Fake this book
Facebook is looking over its shoulder at the competition, and doing what comes naturally for succesful businesses based on a model, if not a technology,... Read more
Very popular in France
Mike Masnick: Google is being fined hundreds of thousands of euros for allowing certain trademarked [sic] words to have advertisements run against them. It’s hard... Read more
Middle-aged bombshell blasted by trademark holder
Explosive story: Looks like some trademark trouble for an evidently fissionable material girl. UPDATE: Resolved in a most unexplosive way: The company claimed to own... Read more
Stickup over smiley
The LA Times reports: Wal-Mart Stores Inc., which uses a yellow happy face to try to put its shoppers in a carefree mood, is saying... Read more
Key decision
“Google makes money not by reason of the nature of the keyword, but by someone clicking on the keyword,” Google lawyer Alexandra Neri told a... Read more
There’s a first time for everything
Jeremy Phillips reports on some “thought I’d seen it all” hijinx from the renowned European Court of F’rinstance: Although [the IPKat] e is generally reluctant to... Read more
An emphatic NO!
Chatty Kathy: German designer Wolfgang Joop’s bid to have a punctuation mark trademarked [sic] for his Joop! clothing and perfume company has been denied by... Read more
… and Europe Strikes Back: Google Loss Upheld by French Court
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... Read more