Putt this in your pipe and smoke it
Ron ColemanPutt-putt — miniature golf, right? Yes, but, PUTT-PUTT® — registered trademark for miniature golf services! Steve Baird explains: So, I learned two things this weekend, Adam Scott is the first…
Best of 2012: Bates and hooks
Originally posted on June 5, 2012, this may be the best post of all of 2012, and maybe ever, on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION® or any other blog. Okay, on LIKELIHOOD…
Bates and hooks
Bates numbering, that is. As a litigator, I’ve been living with Bates-numbering, or Bates-stamping, for over 20 years. (I’m not the only one!) I have manually stamped documents using a…
Museum of genericization
The Merriam-Webster Online dictionary has a cute little feature: The “Top Ten Words from Trademarks.” You know, mainly the usual suspects: Band-Aids, etc. It’s a study in what can go…
Trademark blogoids
Blogoids? Tablogs? It could happen! After all, look how we got the word “tabloid.” Did you ever think about what an odd name that is for a newspaper that’s guilty…
MasterCard card. Card card. Card.
Originally posted 2008-12-17 12:21:30. Republished by Blog Post Promoter A reader writes to New York Times Q&A guy Stuart Elliot with a question that’s on a lot minds: What’s with…
Best of 2008: MasterCard card. Card card. Card.
First posted December 17th, 2008. A reader writes to New York Times Q&A guy Stuart Elliot with a question that’s on a lot minds: What’s with this “Mastercard card” stuff…
Hotels.com is generic for…. what exactly?
Ron ColemanHotels, of course. But read this whole item on the TTABlog. It’s a half a primer on the law of trademark in our time. UPDATE: Does my Old Post Promoter…
The slide to genericide
Evan Brown writes about everyone’s favorite candidate for the dustbin of trademark history — Google. It’s obvious to me that Google has made a conscious decision not to police the…