Garbagio trademarks: Top of the heap
There’s still time to register for the “Failure to Function” #trademark panel in Boston on Nov. 5th!
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Tyler Hall redux on what trademarks do
Traditional, Source-Identifying Trademarks vs the Trademark-as-a-Product As source-identifiers, trademarks help consumers distinguish between competing products, signalling that a product comes from a specific source. This […]
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Guest post: Ornamental? Or trademark as a product?
Trademark-as-a-Product v. Ornamental Sparked by a question from Pamela Chestek about promotional goods, I got to thinking about when a design or word on a […]
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Failure to …. whatever
“Failure to function as a trademark” is a favorite topic around here, and it’s getting more and more attention. Except when it’s not. What am […]
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The shopping dead (Best of 2016)
Originally posted March 21, 2016. Says Pamela Chestek, of the Property, intangible® blog: I haven’t written about “zombie” or “heritage” marks in a long time. So […]
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Occupying trademark
Originally posted 2011-11-08 11:19:26. Republished by Blog Post Promoter So eventually all the “big trademark stories” catch up to you, even if you try to […]
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The shopping dead
Says Pamela Chestek, of the Property, intangible® blog: I haven’t written about “zombie” or “heritage” marks in a long time. So when she does, we don’t […]
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Trayvon, we hardly knew ye
The headline: Trayvon Martin’s family looks to trademark ‘I am Trayvon,’ ‘Justice for Trayvon’: Trayvon Martin’s mother Sybrina Fulton is seeking to trademark [sic] phrases […]
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