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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
