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“I’m a man”

Posted on September 20, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2007-06-06 22:55:54. Republished by Blog Post PromoterAnd perhaps a Brawnier one than you might otherwise have thought, at that. Not that there’s anything […]

Trademarks and trademark law

Trade Dress Rights in Musical Instruments

Posted on July 27, 2016 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2012-11-20 19:02:14. Republished by Blog Post PromoterJohn Welch’s TTAB Blog — which monitors developments at the Trademark Trials and Appeals Board — picks […]

Brand Management and Branding, Trademarks and trademark law

Bar none

Posted on September 7, 2015 by Ron Coleman

Michael Atkins: [University of Washington] School of Law Professor Sean O’Connor, guest blogging at Legal Satyricon, writes about AT&T’s trademark registration of the bars indicating cell phone […]

Trademarks and trademark law

Best of 2007: “I’m a man”

Posted on January 20, 2015 by Ron Coleman

Posted on June 6, 2007. And perhaps a Brawnier one than you might otherwise have thought, at that. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. […]

Trademarks and trademark law

So shoe me!

Posted on December 23, 2009 by Ron Coleman

Staci Riordan reports on the big shoe-vs.-shoe design lawsuit everyone’s talking about — invoking copyright plus one Lanham Act and two New York law varieties of […]

Fashion Law

While my guitar gently weeps

Posted on March 31, 2009 by Ron Coleman

One of the first posts on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION® was about Gibson Guitar Corp. v. Paul Reed Smith Guitars, LP, 70 UPSQ2d 1911 (M.D. Tenn. […]

Brand Management and Branding, Trademarks and trademark law