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Chick-fil-A is the second largest chicken restaurant chain in the United States. Its most successful print and television marketing campaign involves a bunch of cows engaging in desperate and hilarious antics in an effort to convert beef lovers into chicken fans. For the past 16 years, Chick-fil-A has been using the tagline EAT MOR CHIKIN… Continue Reading
I have to thank my girlfriend Karen for bringing this tasty St. Louis trademark dispute to my attention earlier this week. The plaintiff in the case is a restaurant located in the Tower Grove neighborhood of St. Louis by the name of Mangia Italiano. According to various local news reports (see here and here), Mangia… Continue Reading
I have to thank my friend Ray for bringing to my attention an interesting trademark dispute involving one of my favorite breakfast joints dating back to when I was a kid living in Paramus, New Jersey. The International House of Pancakes (more commonly known by the acronym “IHOP”) is a large chain of casual restaurants… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
After taking last weekend off to celebrate and subsequently recover from my 31st birthday (I know you missed me), I now triumphantly return with an anecdote from the city in which I currently reside, St. Louis, Missouri. Home of Budweiser, the Cardinals, and apparently a disgustingly filthy hotel. As some of you familiar with the… Continue Reading
Since I spent the last few weeks writing about Apple and the rampant trademark infringement happening in its iTunes App Store, I figured I’d even things out a little with an anecdote about everyone’s favorite whipping boy of the computer industry. On March 2, 2009, Microsoft filed two trademark applications seeking to register the mark… Continue Reading