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... Read more
Tag: Trademark Registration
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... Read more
Section 2(d) and bridging the gap
In the future, if there is any singularity in trademark law, it may well come down to what what is called “bridging the gap” in... Read more
State of the state
The Actual Confusion blog reports something that, well, I think is at least likely to cause confusion: This morning I was pleasantly suprised to find... Read more
Just what we choose it to mean
When trademark lawyers — much less judges — use a word, it means just what they choose it to mean — neither more nor less.... Read more
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... Read more
Show me the money
Just registering or making minimal use of a domain name, much less “parking” it, is not “use in commerce.” There’s got to be some… commerce!... Read more
A catalog of errors
To register a trademark you need to provide the Patent and Trademark Office with something called a “specimen.” The definition of “specimen” under the PTO’s... Read more