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Last week, a friend of mine emailed me an article about a trademark issue related to the Trayvon Martin story. In the event you haven’t heard about Trayvon Martin because you’ve been doing research in Antarctica for the past month, Trayvon was an African-American teenager who was shot and killed in Florida by a neighborhood… Continue Reading
This week’s article is about a trademark issue involving two of the biggest names in music and their month-old offspring. On January 7, Rapper Jay-Z and singer Beyonce Knowles became parents of a precious seven pound bundle of joy. Like many celebrity couples who think it’s chic to give their children absurd names, they immediately… Continue Reading
This past week, I conducted a trademark search for a client that reminded me just how wacky and frustrating the Trademark Office can be. For a variety of reasons, I am not going to reveal the exact trademark I searched. Instead, I will say that I performed a trademark search on the mark THE CARBON… Continue Reading
First of all, I want to wish everyone a very Happy New Year! I hope 2012 brings all of you much joy, success, and prosperity. My New Year’s resolution is to continue building my trademark law practice and to spend more time seeing and learning about the world. I’m actually going on my very first… Continue Reading
I almost put this trademark dispute in the “ridiculous trademark opposition” category, but I didn’t want to add insult to injury after the Atlanta Braves’ embarrassing late-season collapse that resulted in the team missing the postseason after leading the St. Louis Cardinals by 10.5 games in the wild card race. See, I actually do have… Continue Reading
This week’s trademark article is about one of my favorite sodas currently on the market. It has that unmistakable Coca-Cola taste with none of the high fructose corn syrup that makes you fat. Honestly, I have no idea why someone would choose to buy Diet Coke when Coca-Cola Zero is readily available and has so… Continue Reading
This week’s article involves a two year fight between the Hershey Chocolate & Confectionery Corporation (“Hershey”) and the United States Patent and Trademark Office regarding the chocolate bar pictured above. On August 20, 2009, Hershey filed a trademark application seeking to register the following trademark for “candy and chocolate,” which is described by Hershey as… Continue Reading
A couple of weeks ago, I received a telephone call from a potential client located here in the Midwest. He told me that he recently received a letter from a trademark attorney representing Airwair International Limited. Airwair is the British company that manufactures Dr. Martens footwear. Now, if you’ve ever owned a pair of Dr.… Continue Reading
This week’s article is about an awesome reality show on the A&E television network and some rapper I’ve never heard of who hopefully falls off the face of the Earth sooner rather than later after stirring up this ridiculous trademark dispute. For those of you who haven’t had the pleasure of watching “Storage Wars,” the… Continue Reading
If you’re a fan of online or mobile gaming, then you’re probably very familiar with Zynga. Zynga has provided people all over the globe with more ways to waste time than probably any other software company in recent memory. In fact, many of you have probably spent what amounts to months of your life playing… Continue Reading