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New Top Level Domains – Hype, Hope or Horror?
On June 13, ICANN announced the list of applicants for 1,930 proposed new top level domains. For the uninitiated, top level domains, or “TLDs” are the portion of the domain that appears to the right...
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Apple’s Trademark Ownership Woes Resolved
As of July 2, 2012, the World Trademark Review and its blogger, Helen Sloan, are reporting that Apple has agreed to pay $60 million to Proview Technologies for the IPAD mark in China. As I previously...
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Should Colors Be Protected as Trademarks? If Not, Should Letters? How Shoe...
One of the pleasures of practicing law, perhaps especially in the technology space –is in observing how technology trends and legal theories intersect, ebb and flow over time. Many people in the...
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Red Shoes… The Angels Want To Wear My (Monochrome) Red Shoes… (and now they can)
I can hardly think of Christain Louboutin’s (“Louboutin”) “red soled shoe” case, about which I previously blogged, without hearing Elvis Costello’s Red Shoes in my head. …Oh I used to be disgusted and...
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Branding, Politics, Monetization and Presidential Consents. Some Musings…
As the political season in the U.S. heats up and the campaigns continue to hone their messages, the branding of the campaigns and the candidates becomes more visible to a larger portion of the U.S....
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TM Owners Beware: Potential IP Scammers Are In Our Midst
There are few things more annoying than the feeling that you have been duped into paying for something that you neither need nor want. IP owners, and particularly trademark owners, are common targets...
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Domain Name Offer: Helpful Service, or Marketing Scam?
Last week I blogged about a common deceptive technique used by some publishers around the world that send apparently official invoices to trademark applicants in the hopes that people will reflexively...
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Intellectual Property: Balancing Exclusivity and Access in a Crowd Sourced,...
You Can Trademark That? They Can Own What? Who Knew? There are many reasons we have IP laws – but primary among them is to encourage creative types like artists and inventors to profit from their...
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Trademark Misperceptions Revealed By Reaction to Redskins Decision
I can’t define disparagement, but I know it when I see it… On Wednesday, June 18, 2014 the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, the judicial body that provides review to all Federal trademark filings...
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How Much Would You Pay To Not Suck?
Trademark owners are in the midst of another ‘think’ about the best way to protect and preserve their reputations online. Specifically, beginning on March 30, 2015 the Sunrise Period opened for brand...
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