Trademark Law

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• He’s got the key

  
  LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION — Authority: 138
  Eric Goldman, author of one of the bona-fide-deserving, regularly updated, ABA-Blawg-100-listed and actually fairly indispensable Technology & Marketing Law Blog updates us on a beat I’ve written on a whole bunch but given up hope on following comprehensively.  It is, however, a topic that anyone involved in ...
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• Google AdWords litigation

  
  LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION — Authority: 138
  Originally posted 2007-04-06 11:09:57. Republished by Blog Post PromoterEric Goldman reports on Feldman v. Google — more Google AdWords litigation. As Eric explains, more is less. This is especially true here:Snarky aside: There’s one more fact in common between Person and Feldman–both of them were lawyers ...
  6 days ago

• Diversion, yes, but no

  
  LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION — Authority: 138
  Some people have all the luck in the Eastern District of New York.  Whereas me — I think I’ve got it coming to me right down the middle, and then it seems to get, I don’t know — diverted from me!So some lawyers get assigned judges in the Eastern District of New York whose ideas [...]
  6 days ago

• Revival of the dead

  
  LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION — Authority: 138
  Originally posted 2008-07-31 15:36:01. Republished by Blog Post PromoterJust this morning a client told me about this company, River West Brands, that finds ways to obtain some semblance of the “rights” in abandoned consumer-products trademarks and “revitalize them for modern relevance, reconstruct the business ...
  1 week ago

• Trademark madness

  
  Ruling Imagination: Law and Creativity — Authority: 415
  From Legal Pad : “Sand Hill Advisors, the Palo Alto wealth management company, is suing Sand Hill Advisors, the commercial real estate company in Los Altos, for trademark infringement.” I am, apparently, one of the 3 people Legal Pad asserts did not know that “Sand Hill Road is the iconic stretch of pavement ...
  1 week ago

• Schiller defends App Store approval process

  
  F-Default — Authority: 468
  -: Software , Developer , iPhone , App Store , SDK Well here we go. Read more here: Schiller defends App Store approval process
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• What a Croc!

  
  LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION — Authority: 138
  I don’t report on every dumb trademark lawsuit, because the really goofy ones involving famous companies usually end up getting mainstream press and big-time blog attention as well as other bloggy sober analysis, so what do you need me for?  I just work my little sub-micro-niche with thankless dedication and ...
  1 week ago

• Trademarks and the Apple App Store

  
  in propria persona — Authority: 100
  Image via CrunchBase Apple’s “app store” continues to generate controversy through its rejections. I must agree with the following analysis that use of icons–especially as provided through an API expressly for that purpose should not violate trademark law (or copyright for that matter). It is, I think, ...
  1 week ago

• Why Every Small Business Needs Trademark Protection

  
  The Publicists Assistant — Authority: 439
  A trademark for the products and services of a small business both distinguishes them from those of other companies and also protects business assets should an infringement occur. Every small business exists based on the individual identity of its products and services. Each company needs to have its own name and a ...
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• Fraud, trademark, and rights

  
  LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION — Authority: 138
  Mises Blog:This is my main problem with current trademark law — that in transferring the customer-fraud-based right to trademark holders, the fraud basis is lost over time, as the trademark right is conceived of as a right of the trademark holder. Then it gets broadened and extended, as all IP law does, just like ...
  2 weeks ago

• “Private Label Store Brand OTC Naming Architecture”!

  
  LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION — Authority: 138
  Now that’s a mouthful, eh?  Yes, that is one ba-a-a-ad phrase to have handy for your next trademarks-and-branding over pigs-in-blankets soirée!Oh… you don’t… know what private label store branding OTC architecture means?  (Cough.)  Excuse me, um, I think I just saw my friend come in — hey, look, they ...
  2 weeks ago

• Similar site to s*h*i*p*l*y.com by Sevenns

  
  Pro Freelance Projects — Authority: 178
  Dear Freelancers, I need to crate a similar website to s*h*i*p*l*y.com (without violating any copyright and trademark law). The site will be completed in Spanish (I will do the translation for you)… (Budget: $1500-3000, Jobs: .NET, eCommerce, Joomla, PHP)Go to SourcePost similar project
  2 weeks ago

• Money or racism? Could the Dolans just do the right thing already? The courts won’t.

  
  Ruling Imagination: Law and Creativity — Authority: 415
  The Lanham Act , the federal law governing trademarks prohibits trademarks “which may disparage . . . persons, living or dead, institutions, beliefs, or national symbols, or bring them into contempt. . . .” Nevertheless, the Supreme Court has declined to review a lower court decision ( pdf download ) in Pro ...
  2 weeks ago

• Supreme Court Refuses Harjo, Redskins Can Keep Trademark

  
  IPWatchdog.com | Patents & Patent Law — Authority: 549
  While it is not easy for a Dallas Cowboys fan like myself to write about a Redskins victory with any enthusiasm, the Washington Redskins clearly scored a bigger victory on Monday than any victory this non-playoff team will have all season long on the field. The United States Supreme Court earlier today announced that ...
  2 weeks ago

• Commented on “The Trademark Blog” — Polo v. Polo

  
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  Marty Schwimmer (via @trademarkblog) updates us on the latest, and floats a novel idea of his own for getting in on the action, in the ongoing legal war between the United States Polo Association and Ralph Lauren’s faux-Aryan-fashion empire.  As I said in the comments there,Man, this is the litigation series that ...
  2 weeks ago

• Glenn Beck Loses Domain Name Dispute

  
  madisonian.net — Authority: 514
  In case anyone missed it, Glenn Beck unsurprisingly was unsuccessful in a WIPO arbitration proceeding seeking transfer of the domain name: “http://glennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990.com/” An amusing account of the decision and the aftermath is available here . (Thanks to my student Carolyn Blake for ...
  2 weeks ago

• Small Business Legal Issues: Trade Names, Logos and Trademark Law

  
  crowdSPRING Blog — Authority: 467
  Prior to crowdSPRING, I was a lawyer for 13 years - focusing on complex commercial and intellectual property litigation. This is the second in what will be a regular feature in our blog discussing important legal issues that impact every small business. What is a Trademark? Trademark law prevents ...
  3 weeks ago

• 7th Circuit Case Should Serve As A Reminder To Business Attorneys

  
  IP Law Blog — Authority: 431
  by Scott Hervey Recently the 7 th Circuit in Sunstar, Inc. v. Alberto-Culver Company provided a reminder to attorneys engaging in a business transaction between domestic and a foreign parties. Stated plainly, the 7 th Circuit reminded business attorneys that if a term is included in a transaction document – ...
  3 weeks ago

• Jenzabar: Blogs are sticks and stones; they hurt me.

  
  LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION — Authority: 138
  Jenzabar, the educational software company Paul Levy and I mentioned last month (and which Overlawyered picked up) in connection with its “trademark as censorship tool” litigation, is back at it again — and not a little clumsily, for all its cleverness.  As Paul reports, the company’s lawyers arenow claiming ...
  3 weeks ago

• Whaddya know!

  
  LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION — Authority: 138
  The Mustang Ranch trademark case has finally been resolved — and it turns out that prostitute proprietor Lance Gilman gets to claim the trademark for the whorehouse he done boughten after all.  Ho-ho-ho!Originally posted 2006-12-17 11:21:24. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
  3 weeks ago

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