This week’s blog entry comes courtesy of everyone’s favorite place to post the most mundane and trivial tidbits of their existence for the “enjoyment” of their 750 closest “friends.” A few days ago, four separate people emailed me this article about Facebook suing a company by the name of Teachbook.com, LLC. Apparently, Teachbook.com has recently [...]
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Dairy Queen v. Yogubliz – A “Blizzard” of Trademark Litigation Like No Other
If you happen to be from California (or enjoy gambling at the Mirage or Palms casinos in Las Vegas), you may be familiar with a small chain of frozen yogurt shops called “Blizz Frozen Yogurt” owned by a California company by the name of Yogubliz, Inc. According to its website, Yogubliz currently operates eight locations [...]
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UPDATE: After 100 Years, State of Texas Officially Claims Ownership of THE ALAMO Trademark
At the beginning of May 2010, I posted about a trademark dispute that was developing between the State of Texas and a non-profit corporation by the name of The Daughters of the Republic of Texas (“Daughters”) regarding ownership of the trademark ALAMO. For those of you who haven’t committed all of my previous blog posts [...]
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UPDATE: Naked Cowboy Files Trademark Infringement Suit Against Naked Cowgirl – How Cheeky!!
About a month ago, I wrote about a trademark dispute that was brewing between Robert Burck (a/k/a “The Naked Cowboy”) and Sandy Kane (a/k/a “The Naked Cowgirl”). As a refresher, Burck is known for hanging out in Times Square and strumming his guitar wearing only cowboy boots, a cowboy hat, and tight-fitting briefs (you know, [...]
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Apple Attempts to Register APP STORE as Trademark. Microsoft Attempts to Stop the Madness.
For those of you who have read some of my previous blog posts, you already know of my love-hate relationship with Apple. Well, the following story has tipped the scales more towards hate. On July 17, 2008, Apple applied to register APP STORE as a trademark for “retail store services featuring computer software provided via [...]
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Dirt Cheap v. Cheap Cheap – A Trademark Dispute Sure to Satisfy All Vices
This week’s blog post has some local flavor to it (alcohol and tobacco to be exact) thanks to a trademark dispute between two competing liquor stores here in the St. Louis area. Dotted across The Lou is a chain of twelve discount liquor and cigarette shops called DIRT CHEAP. Dirt Cheap is probably best known [...]
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Naked Cowboy v. Naked Cowgirl: A Trademark Dispute Fit for a Nudist Colony (and New York City)
If you happen to be from New York City or perhaps a frequent tourist there, you may have come across Robert Burck in your journeys through the Big Apple. Burck, who is best known for strumming his guitar on the sidewalks of Times Square wearing only boots, a 10 gallon hat, and tighty-whities, has been [...]
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Ridiculous Trademark Opposition of the Week – Nokia v. Sony Ericsson
After about a two month hiatus, my “Ridiculous Trademark Opposition of the Week” series continues with a battle between two titans of the cell phone industry. Nokia Corporation is the owner of various federal trademark registrations for marks that consist of a single letter and two numbers, including N70 (Reg. No. 3524307), N76 (Reg. No. [...]
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Is RDIO a Trademark or a Typo?
This week’s post is in response to a fellow intellectual property attorney’s inquiry asking my opinion on the following matter (which he probably would have preferred in a 3-4 sentence email, but oh well). On May 4, 2009, a company out of California called Pulser Music Services, Inc. (“Pulser”) filed an application to register the [...]
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ANDY’S v. RANDY’S: A Tasty Little Trademark Infringement Indeed
During the latter portion of this past week, I was attending the Missouri Bar Solo and Small Firm Conference in Osage Beach (home to the beautiful Lake of the Ozarks). As I was driving down U.S. 54 to The Happy Fisherman for dinner Wednesday evening (which has the best all-you-can-eat catfish and salad bar), I [...]
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BILL ME LATER / EBILLME Trademark Dispute: How Simply Using a Credit Card Online Will Help Avoid Funding Litigation
My weekly search of the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board records led me to a pretty interesting situation between two competing companies in the e-commerce industry whose services you’ve probably never used if you are like the 99% of Americans who aren’t completely freaked out or paralyzed by the prospect of using their credit/debit card [...]
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