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
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... 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?
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... 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