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Tag: Starbucks

Posted on October 27, 2022 Brand Management and Branding

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

Posted on July 5, 2021 Brand Management and Branding

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

Posted on June 17, 2021 Brand Management and Branding

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

Posted on June 2, 2021 Fair Use

“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

Posted on May 28, 2021 Trademark Dilution

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

Posted on March 13, 2020 Brand Management and Branding

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

Posted on October 17, 2019 Culture Clash

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

Posted on October 17, 2019 Brand Management and Branding

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

Posted on February 12, 2019 Brand Management and Branding

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

Posted on January 7, 2016January 18, 2016 Likelihood of Confusion

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

Posted on January 3, 2014 Trademark Dilution

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

Posted on December 10, 2013December 17, 2013 Trademark Dilution

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

Matthew David Brozik
Posted on November 19, 2013October 18, 2016 Trademark Dilution

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

Posted on June 11, 2013June 18, 2013 Brand Management and Branding

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

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