
Keeping it real — the ultimate use in commerce
The TTABlog® reports, again, on the fraud issue, but that’s not what interests me here so much this time. Rather, it’s the question of the... Read more
Ron Coleman on the law affecting brands, the Internet & free speech
The TTABlog® reports, again, on the fraud issue, but that’s not what interests me here so much this time. Rather, it’s the question of the... Read more
This was posted on September 24, 2008: John Welch reports on an interesting, not quite safe for home viewing case called Boston Red Sox Baseball... Read more
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... Read more
Updated (see below) in September, 2011: Firefly Digital explains the vision behind their, um, trademarks — including the one they claim a little outfit called... Read more
Michael Hall of Registration Ruminations is wrestling, as more and more trademark practitioners are, with the increasingly ubiquitous problem of inconsistency within the PTO on trademark... Read more
“Geographic Indicators,” that is. The USPTO reports today that: the World Trade Organization (WTO) has released a panel report affirming the United States’ assertion that... Read more
The wheels of justice, they say, turn slowly. The fact that they say this does not, however, in any way assuage clients, though it does... Read more
This was first posted on September 3, 2009. Big decision, via the TTABlog®: The worm, finally, finally, has turned on the issue of the cancellation... Read more
This story won’t die — especially judging from the prominence of related words among search terms that reach this blog. The latest, which we missed... Read more