The Red Hot Chilli Peppers are suing Showtime for naming their latest series “Californication.” Showtime’s producers claim that the Red Hots didn’t coin the term though. (complaint) “Apparently in the
A company from British Columbia opened a pizza joint chain called Boston’s The Gourmet Pizza. Somehow they managed to secure a federal trademark for that strangely-worded mark, and they opened
Incorrect stereotypes may not suggest as much, but the Hells Angels are a very well-run business, complete with a keen attention to detail when it comes to registering, maintaining, and
It has been an exciting year for trademark cases involving pageants.
Ron Coleman’s Likelihood of Confusion® reports on “Tarzan’s Yell” failing to cut it as a trademark. Link.
The Arbitration Court at the Polish Chamber of Information Technology and Telecommunication (PCITT) has ruled in favor of Google in a dispute over the gmail.com.pl domain name. (The PCITT is
It doesn’t get much better than this (If you like Free Speech) File this under “when will they learn?” Philip J. Smith keeps a blog http://www.jackwhispers.blogspot.com upon which he comments
Here’s a strange one: The City of Toronto launched an ad campaign “One Cent Now” to increase support in Ottawa for a measure to set aside more tax funds for
As if they weren’t already doomed to lose the World Series, the Colorado Rockies follow the NFL into the arena of “stupid trademark ideas.” (See NFL Drops “Big Game” Trademark
A few months ago, I blogged on the Freecycle v. Oey case, here. In that case, Timothy Oey a former member of “The Freecycling Network” opposed TFN’s efforts to trademark
Two of my blogger friends recently reported on a pair of trademark bullies – trademark owners with little in the way of rights, but lots in the way of money,
I heard about this story on NPR, but a big hat tip to the Citizen Media Law Project for not only reminding me of it, but for its dead-on analysis
