Showing posts with label trademark. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trademark. Show all posts
Monday, 23 May 2022

Fair Use and the Future Explored: Chip N' Dale: Rescue Rangers Movie

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Yesterday, my kids and I watched the new movie, Chip N’ Dale:Rescue Rangers .  This is probably the funniest Intellectual Property law relat...
Tuesday, 23 July 2019

"Decluttering" the U.S. Trademark Register?

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The USPTO recently announced that “foreign-domiciled trademark applicants, registrants, and parties to [TTAB] proceedings" must secure ...
Monday, 21 May 2018

Solutions in Search of a Problem: The Trademark Register Clogged?

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Commentators have debated the question of whether there are too many trademarks.  Are we going to end up in a situation where there just are...
Thursday, 8 December 2016

China Sends a Message: Invest in Me

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In recent posts ( here  and here ), I have discussed China’s increased protection of intellectual property rights.  Recently, Ian Harvey...
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Friday, 24 June 2016

Brexit and IP Practice: What does it mean?

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As we all know, Brexit happened yesterday (I guess depending on your time zone).  I am disappointed by the vote, but that is democracy.  It ...
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Friday, 16 October 2015

Mylan's EpiPen: Losing a Billion Dollar a Year Business Because of Trademark Choice and Usage?

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In a recent Bloomberg Business article, How Marketing Turned the EpiPen into a Billion Dollar Business , authors Cynthia Koons and Robert ...
Saturday, 17 January 2015

The Cost to Develop a New Name for a Product: $3,000 to $75,000?

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In a recent entertaining and informative article, The Weird Science of Naming Products , by Neal Gabler, published in the New York Times Mag...
Monday, 21 July 2014

YUM Brands has Trials in China: A “Social Ideology” Fix to the Problem?

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YUM Brands (YUM), the owner of KFC and Pizza Hut, has generally enjoyed enormous success in China for a “foreign brand”.   The success has...
Tuesday, 14 January 2014

The Controversial Mark is Back in the News and a Bad Example to Boot

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I’ve written about the infamous mark, here .   Miri Frankel just wrote a very nice post at the IPKat about how the United States Patent and...
Thursday, 28 March 2013

The LOTR and the One Armed Bandits: Part I

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I love J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit.   I’ve loved the books since I was a child and I love the movies as an adult.   I...
Friday, 1 February 2013

Is Nothing Sacred? Samsung Takes Its "Anti-IP" Case to the People.

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The American Football championship—the Super Bowl—is this weekend.   And, along with it, there is the opportunity to capture the attention a...
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Tuesday, 15 January 2013

The Controversial Mark: Is Image Everything and is all Publicity Really Good?

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One of the most famous American football teams in the United States is the Redskins based in Washington DC.   And, perhaps the most famous ...