Ed T and the Trademark Dimensions
Ron ColemanExplanatory 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 permission to the world to…
Best of 2008: Tackiness not grounds for refusal to register
Otherwise, why would John Welch be reporting this appeal?: December 4, 2008 – 10 AM: In re Chippendales USA, LLC, Serial No. 78666598
Amateur trademark filings, gauzy brand aids
A very popular post around here, based on server logs and SEO power, is this one: Trademark do it yourself? In that post I dissect an article by a bright,…
Best of 2012: That distinctive date
Originally posted October 3, 2012. In a recent TTAB case my office faced a motion to compel answers to interrogatories requesting what would seem like a very relevant, and very…
Best of 2012: Schaden-Fraud?
First posted on September 24, 2012. John Welch has once again updated his Fraud-O-Meter! Behind this clever Infographic-type thingy is a report of a meaningful legal development concerning the concept…
Schaden-Fraud?
John Welch has once again updated his Fraud-O-Meter! Behind this clever Infographic-type thingy is a report of a meaningful legal development concerning the concept of fraud on the PTO. As…
Best of 2011: Trademark do it yourself?
First posted on June 28, 2011. Aaron Franklin, co-founder of LazyMeter — an intriguing project that’s still in Beta but is not what it sounds like — writes as follows…
Trademark do it yourself?
Aaron Franklin, co-founder of LazyMeter — an intriguing project that’s still in Beta but is not what it sounds like — writes as follows on Seattle 2.0: At first glance,…
In a family way
I’ve written, as is my wont, at great length regarding my skepticism about the “family of trademarks” concept. Well, once you’ve digested that, you may want to head over to…
Trademark attorneys shaken AND stirred over Walther product configuration TM ruling
Who says the Commissioner of Trademarks is “Dr. No”? To the contrary, some trademark registration applications Only Live Twice — and that’s quite enough. John Welch, The Man with the…
Don’t mutilate my mark!
John Welch treats us to another edition of “You Be the Judge” — well, he calls it something slightly else, but whatever — and asks the Potter-Stewart-esque question, “Do you…
Mark their words
Jihad Watch and Atlas Shrugs — two websites run by friends of mine who have very clearly articulated views about Islamic radicalism, and controversial ones about what to do about…
Hold the center!
John Thomas at the Pittsburgh IP Law Blog picks up on an interesting phenomenon concerning center-centric trademark registration applications: If the mark you are trying to register contains the word…
A fraud by any other name would… well…
While our intrepid brother the TTABlogger resorts to reading entrails, employing dowsing rods and attending seances in his search for the answer to “fraud on the PTO” trademark truth, the…