Starbucks blinks
Big Green gives in on the Ethiopia coffee-bean-name controversy. I guess if you talk the PC talk, you’ve got to walk it, too. The result... Read more
Tag: Starbucks
Big Green’s Ethiopian trademark problem
The Australian reports that earlier news about a resolution of Starbucks’ trademark problems with the Ethiopian coffee thing was perhaps over-caffeinated. UPDATE: Have things perked... Read more
Another black eye for Starbucks
Has there ever been a more star-crossed brand maintenance campaign than that of that troubled leftover from the dot-bomb days, Starbucks? No respect in Korea… ... Read more
“DUMB STARBUCKS”: Grasping at laws.
Your blawger, he is conflicted. Part of me does not want to give the—ahem—geniuses behind the DUMB STARBUCKS stunt any more press, but the rest... Read more
Best of 2009: Char’ed, I’m sure
First posted December 8, 2009. Poor Starbucks. So much trademark trouble they have! Other trouble, too. And now the people who gave you five-dollar coffee in... Read more
Best of 2006: Starbucks — not a “preya” in Korea
The Korea Times reports that perpetual trademark litigation plaintiff Starbucks has lost two in a row to South Korea’s Elpreya company, which features a line... Read more
Fishy business
Funny things happen to trademarks in the Casbah. John Burgess at the Crossroads Arabia blog has a story about a recent incident of Saudi Arabia’s... Read more
New brew for Starbucks and trademark?
I’ve written so much, for so long, about the branding and trademark adventures — overwhelmingly unhappy ones — of Starbucks that I’ve pretty much run... Read more
Dimming star?
Ann Althouse: Starbucks used to seem like a luxury brand, and now it feels like a fallback when you can’t get to the real thing.... Read more
Passing the Sambucks
(I have excised this from the larger omnibus posting below and added to it.) A woman named Samantha Buck tried to parlay the coincidence of... Read more
Blurring away
It really does appear that trademark dilution, once the darling of federal judges seeking to enforce trademark rights in gross on behalf of markholders whose... Read more
Absolutely flawed
Michael Atkins, the estimable Seattle Trademark Lawyer (true, there are others!), writes on the subject both Matthew and I have written about at length here:... Read more
Grande, Venti, De Novo. (Starbucks VI)
Last week, while one giant was vindicated after years of litigation—even if its name was spelled “Goggle” on page 2 of Judge Chin’s decision—another was... Read more
Starbucks — not a “preya” in Korea
The Korea Times reports that perpetual trademark litigation plaintiff Starbucks has lost two in a row to South Korea’s Elpreya company, which features a line... Read more