Occupying trademark
So eventually all the “big trademark stories” catch up to you, even if you try to avoid them as you would try to avoid …... Read more
Tag: Garbagio Goods
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... Read more
Tyler Hall redux on what trademarks do
[stextbox id=’info’ caption=’More Tyler Hall’s thoughts on garbagio goods’] Tyler Hall writes: I received an interesting follow up to my previous post about trademarks and... Read more
Ed T and the Trademark Dimensions
Explanatory introduction to a virtual guest post by Ed Timberlake: I say if it's yours and you post in on an embeddable platform, you've given... Read more
Garbagio trademarks: Top of the heap
There's still time to register for the "Failure to Function" #trademark panel in Boston on Nov. 5th! Read more
Guest post: Ornamental? Or trademark as a product?
[stextbox id=’info’ caption=’Tyler Hall’s thoughts on garbagio goods’] The Twitter thread that led to this blog post started when trademark lawyer Tyler Hall suggested, on... Read more
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... Read more
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... Read more
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... Read more