2002

The NY Times reports on the success of MECCA COLA, a cola drink targeted at Muslims who wish to boycott Coca-Cola.  You can look at MECCA COLA’s trade dress here.  Sainsbury came out with a red can for its Classic Cola years ago and had to remove the white stripe (Google Sainsbury Cola Trade

Armand Zildjian, chairman of the Avedis Zildjain company, died recently. If you have seen a drum set, then chances are you have seen the flowing ZILDJIAN mark on cymbals or drumsticks.  The Avedis Zildjian company was founded in Constantinople in 1623 and moved to Massachusetts in 1929.  Zildjian is the oldest family business in the U.S.

Front page Wall Street Journal article today on over-use of a final Z replacing a S in brandz like BRATZ.

On the whole, I have not seen too many trademark decisions involving AOL user names.  My guess is that if someone was using [famous trademark]@aol.com, a letter to AOL might do the trick.  In any event, there has been a Northern District of Texas case in which the owner of the trademark EMC MORTGAGE received a

The NY Times today reports on Professor Jospeh Turow of the Annenberg School for Communication at the U of Penn., whose upcoming book on the Internet (MIT Press) will conspicuously not use an Initial Cap when discussing the internet, uh, Internet.  His argument is that the Internet has become a part of the ‘everyday universe’