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• Best of 2009: “Keeping it real — the ultimate use in commerce”

  
  LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION — Authority: 133
  This was first posted on May 7, 2009.The TTABlog® reports, again, on the fraud issue, but that’s not what interests me here so much this time. Rather, it’s the question of the lifecycle of a trademark’s “use in commerce” status when plotted against that of a specific product which may no longer be ...
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• Best of 2009: “Intellectual property and its digestion”

  
  LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION — Authority: 133
  This was first posted on February 20, 2009:Back and forth in in social networking space — once Facebook, I digest some key ingredients of intellectual property as it applies to famous burgers (reprinted with Ivan’s permission):Ivan Kevin AlexanderToday at 10:35amHi Ron,I had an interesting IP question/hypo ...
  3 days ago

• Best of 2009: “Adverference?”

  
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  This was originally published on January 22, 2009:Working from home today after a bruising few weeks at work (see yesterday’s post!), I finally figured out what was going on with banner ads on my Internet browsing. It raises an interesting question about Internet-related copyright and trademark law.We use a ...
  5 days ago

• Cover banned?

  
  LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION — Authority: 133
  Now this is an interesting twist on IP rights and wrongs.  It’s interesting, though, more as a sign of the desperation of the dead-tree media to raise cash — even at the expense of relationships with the hands that feed it — than in terms of any particularly new legal ground being plowed here.  I [...]
  1 week ago

• Merry, Merry Trademark Season from Pittsburgh

  
  madisonian.net — Authority: 474
  From the Department of Joys of the Season to You, Too comes news that the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership not only owns a trademark registration for the phrase “Light Up Night” but is now — and I mean that almost literally, as in “in the middle of the holiday season” — sending out cease-and-desist letters ...
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• Federal Circuit Puts Generic 1800Mattress Trademark to Bed

  
  IP Law Blog — Authority: 103
  by Scott Hervey After four years, the quest to obtain federal trademark protection for the mark MATTRESS.COM by owner 1800Mattress.com IP, LLC, formerly Dial-A-Mattress Operating Corp, has been put to bed. The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has finally held that the mark is generic and ...
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• Suit Claims Search Engine’s ‘Bing’ Name Infringes Trademark

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 677
  A small St. Louis design company claims in a lawsuit that Microsoft infringed its trademark when it called its new search engine Bing. The suit was filed in St. Louis circuit court this week by Bing! Information Design, according to Ars Technica, IDG News Service and a press release. The company, which creates ...
  1 week ago

• Marketing In The Olympic Wake

  
  Slaw — Authority: 592
  Is it rogue or is it ambush marketing? With hockey helmet toques, a front tooth blackout marker, Canada-emblazoned hoodies, and Eh? t-shirts, it calls out to the inner hoser in all of us. The latest news is that manifesto-driven, zen-making sportswear company Lululemon Athletica is getting cheeky in the pre-Olympic ...
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• The Costs of Counterfeiting

  
  madisonian.net — Authority: 474
  I was intrigued by this item in the NYT “Ideas” report last Sunday: Wearing imitation designer clothing or accessories can fool others — but no matter how convincing the knockoff, you never, of course, fool yourself. It’s a small but undeniable act of duplicity. Which led a trio of researchers to suspect ...
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• South Butt Sued

  
  madisonian.net — Authority: 474
  From Charbucks to South Butt … Recent Pitt grad and my former research assistant Dan Corbett is now a Pittsburgh trademark lawyer with his own blog – Pittsburgh Trademark Lawyer , and please send some traffic his way — and via Dan I learn that the North Face has gone ahead and sued the seller of “South ...
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• The North Face Sues The South Butt for Trademark Infringement

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 677
  The North Face Apparel Co. has filed a trademark infringement suit against a teen who started a company called The South Butt to help pay for college. The North Face’s tag line is “Never Stop Exploring while The South Butt sells products with the tag line “Never Stop Relaxing,” according to the Associated ...
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• When Product Resales are not Protected under the First Sale Doctrine

  
  IP Law Blog — Authority: 103
  by Jeff Pietsch Earlier this year, the Tenth Circuit court upheld a preliminary injunction granted in favor of an electronics equipment manufacturer against a reseller of its goods in a trademark infringement action . In Beltronics v. Midwest Inventory Distribution , the reseller (Midwest) argued that it was ...
  2 weeks ago

• IRS and Foreign Countries May Jointly Audit Some Corporations

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 677
  After collecting millions of dollars in unpaid taxes from Americans with secret bank accounts in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, the Internal Revenue Service is expanding its overseas enforcement efforts.The tax agency is working with its counterparts in other countries to develop a plan for conducting joint audits of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Nuts to us? Or a “real” Charlie Brown Christmas?

  
  LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION — Authority: 133
  Instapundit links to this item about the incredible shrinking Charlie Brown specials — warmly-remembered favorite scenes from the annual Peanut broadcasts being incrementally excised from annual broadcasts to make room for more and more commercials.  And now, being today and all, all this can be confirmed by any ...
  2 weeks ago

• Char’ed, I’m sure

  
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  Poor Starbucks.  So much trademark trouble they have!  Other trouble, too.  And now the people who gave you five-dollar coffee in a paper cup have lost another one — one they thought they had won, namely the Starbucks v. Charbucks case (decision here, posted by Marty; the real name of the case is Starbucks Corp. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Are T.V. Programs Killer Apps?

  
  madisonian.net — Authority: 474
  Networks. In my youth, the term was most familiar to me as the word for large, national television stations. NBC was at the bottom of a small heap in the late 1970s. If I recall correctly, Johnny Carson and the Tonight Show supported most of the network in general. Now remember, there were only three networks and some ...
  2 weeks ago

• Blog o’ briefs

  
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  Just found this blog called Trademark Law Briefs.  It’s all Ninth Circuit stuff — which is plenty.It’s short little “briefs” summarizing recent trademark law decisions in that August federal Circuit, by California lawyer Cynthia Jones.I’d say if you mainly read this blog for your trademark learning you ...
  3 weeks ago

• Settling in

  
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  Originally posted 2007-09-07 13:37:25. Republished by Blog Post PromoterFoley Square viewOriginally uploaded by Ron ColemanI took this view of Foley Square, where the courthouses and many other public buildings in Manhattan are, when I stopped to eat a bite before attending a mediation before a federal magistrate ...
  3 weeks ago

• Eat here, get gas. But not if you’re Jewish!

  
  LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION — Authority: 133
  Yes, that’s the famous old joke on the roadside filling station sign.  Well, not the second part.  But evidently it’s not a laughing matter at Luke Oil, which overstepped the bounds of what is and isn’t kosher in trademarks:Lawyers for the Orthodox Union, a kosher food certification group, filed a court motion ...
  3 weeks ago

• Trademark Tips for Green Startups Apply to All Companies

  
  Seattle Trademark Lawyer — Authority: 421
  Graham & Dunn’s own GreenTech blog is on a roll with three posts in recent weeks on trademark issues affecting the “green economy”: The post, “ Trademarks and ‘Green Depletion ,’” questions whether green startups are running out of good names. (Fortunately, they’re not.) Part 1 of ...
  3 weeks ago

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