A couple of months ago, I wrote about a potential trademark dispute stemming from Apple’s intended use of the name IPAD in connection with its soon-to-be-released tablet computer device. As a refresher, Fujitsu has owned a pending application for IPAD since 2003 for a “hand-held computing device for wireless networking in a retail environment.” According [...]
U.S. Senate Candidate on Trademark Infringement: “I Did It For The People Of This Great Country!”
About 10 days ago, a friend of mine forwarded to me this brief article which talks about an unauthorized use of a trademark owned by the Columbus Blue Jackets professional hockey team. According to the article, a campaign volunteer for Libertarian Marc Delphine of Oregon (who is running for a seat in the United States [...]
With LegalZoom, It Really is “Garbage In, Garbage Out.”
First and foremost, I would like to thank my nemesis LegalZoom for this week’s blog post. I swear, the only good thing about LegalZoom is its uncanny ability to continually provide me with fodder to write about on this blog. Just when I think I have nothing interesting to talk about, LegalZoom swoops in to [...]
Google Says: “We Shun the ® Because, Let’s Face It, We Have the Money to Crush Infringers All Day Long.”
The idea for this week’s blog post comes courtesy of another intellectual property attorney here in St. Louis (thanks Emmett!) who emailed me asking why Google uses a “TM” next to its name rather than the more appropriate ® designation. Before I even attempt to answer that question (and I’m not really sure that I [...]
