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Posted on January 6, 2022 IP Overreaching Trademarks and trademark law

Bully for who?

Or should it be whom?  Anyway, my article on trademark bullying first published in January’s Intellectual Property Magazine and excerpted in this previous post, is... Read more

Posted on November 27, 2021 Brand Management and Branding

SUPER BOWL® Trademark Watch and Contest I

Every year it’s the same thing: Several weeks before the Super Bowl®, people and businesses wishing to promote events related to the timing of the... Read more

Posted on May 25, 2021 IP Overreaching

SUPER BOWL® trademark post XI: Consumer Reports and the super-duper exemption

Yes, it is that time of year again — the SUPER BOWL® trademark overreaching (dare I say bullying?) time of year.  This January I’m focusing... Read more

Posted on October 17, 2019 IP Overreaching

NFL punts in “Big game”

The NFL is a lot of things, but I never thought it was stupid. It turns out that it isn’t. The Sports Blog reports: Remember... Read more

Posted on January 1, 2018 Brand Management and Branding

Best of 2012: SUPER BOWL® trademark post XI: Consumer Reports and the super-duper exemption

Yes, it is that time of year again — the SUPER BOWL® trademark overreaching (dare I say bullying?) time of year.  This January I’m focusing... Read more

Posted on December 30, 2015 Brand Management and Branding

Large game

Forbes chimes in on the NFL’s heavy-handed IP campaign, and how much more this year has looked like flag football, or maybe “touch”: Clearly, brand... Read more

Posted on December 1, 2015 Trademarks and trademark law

The ugly side of branding

Who but the ultimate trademark pig the NFL would make unwilling third parties endorse their sponsors? Makes me want to throw a SUPER BOWL PARTY!... Read more

Posted on February 7, 2013January 26, 2018 Fair Use

Don’t say it! SUPER BOWL®, that is.

I don’t watch a lot of TV — don’t even have one, actually.  And I only raise the topic because that is my excuse for... Read more

Posted on December 19, 2011January 29, 2015 Enforcement

Best of 2011: The entrepreneurship of trademark bullying

Originally posted January 12, 2011. I figured I must have written somewhere about that PTO trademark bullying thing — or if I didn’t, I am... Read more

Posted on January 12, 2011January 29, 2015 Trademarks and trademark law

The entrepreneurship of trademark bullying

I figured I must have written somewhere about that PTO trademark bullying thing — or if I didn’t, I am sure I linked to someone... Read more

Posted on March 1, 2007January 27, 2015 Brand Management and Branding

SUPER BOWL!!!! (Updated and moved up)

SUPER BOWL! SUPER BOWL! SUPER BOWL! Now that they “own” the English words “Super Bowl” — terrifying everyone from even the fairest of use with... Read more

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The question of whether consumers are likely to be confused is the signal inquiry that determines if a trademark infringement claim is valid. I write here about trademark law, copyright law, brands, free speech (mostly as it relates to the Internet and social media). That may sound like a lot, but it's just a blog.

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