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Tag: Trademark Registration

Posted on March 6, 2023March 9, 2023 Brand Management and Branding

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

Posted on February 14, 2023 Trademarks and trademark law

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

Posted on May 4, 2022 Bridging the Gap

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

Posted on June 17, 2021 Trademarks and trademark law

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

Posted on April 13, 2021April 13, 2021 Trademarks and trademark law

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

Posted on December 27, 2015December 30, 2015 Law Practice and Profession

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

Posted on June 16, 2014December 28, 2014 Startups

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

Posted on March 19, 2014March 19, 2014 TTAB Practice

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

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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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