12
Nov/03
Tarnishment by Metonymy
McDonalds has objected to Merriam-Webster Dictionary defining McJOB as a “low paying job that requires little skill.”
The use of SPAM as a word that means unwanted email is an example of tarnishment by metonymy. Merriam-Webster’s definition of metonymy here.
- 2(a) False Connection
- abandoment
- Abandonment / Residual Goodwill
- Advertising
- Ambush Marketing
- Appellations of Origin
- Branding
- But Is It Art?
- Circuit Court Decisions
- Commercial Speech
- Compatibility / Replacement Parts
- Contracts
- Contributory/Vicarious Liability
- Copyright
- Copyright Fair Use
- Corporate Names
- Coulrophobia
- Counterfeits
- Damages
- Dastar
- Dawn Of The Donut
- Decaratory Judgement
- Digital Rights Management
- DMCA
- Domain Names
- Ethics Professional Responsibility
- EULA
- Extraterritorial Application
- False Advertising
- False Endorsement
- Famous Marks
- Fashion
- Fees and Costs
- First Amendment
- Franchise
- FRE 408
- General blogging affairs
- Genericide
- Geography
- Grey Goods
- Hot News / Misappropriation
- Ideas, Protection of
- Inherent Registrability
- Initial Interest Confusion
- Insurance
- International
- Irony
- Legislation
- Libel/Defamation
- Likelihood of Confusion
- Linking
- Lionel Hutz
- Litigation
- Madrid Protocol
- Miscellany
- Music Copyright
- Non Disclosure
- Non-Traditional Trademarks
- Olympics
- Open Source
- Other People's Mail
- Pan American Convention
- Paris Convention
- Parody/Speech
- Personal Jurisdiction
- Pleading
- Podcasting
- Post purchase confusion
- Priority
- Protection of Data
- Public Domain
- Recently Filed Suits
- Reverse Confusion
- Right of Publicity/Privacy
- RSS and Data Aggregation
- Russia
- Scandalous and Immoral!
- School Names
- Search Engines
- State Trademarks
- Stoller
- Surname
- THe Sacred Right to One's Name
- Third Party Practice
- TITWIITWTW
- Trade Dress
- Trade Libel
- Trade Secret
- Trademark Fair Use
- Trademark Practice
- Trademark Trolls
- Uncategorized
- User Generated Content
- Venue
- Virtual Worlds
- What Is This Thing Called Dilution?
- YouTube
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
- October 2010
- September 2010
- August 2010
- July 2010
- June 2010
- May 2010
- April 2010
- March 2010
- February 2010
- January 2010
- December 2009
- November 2009
- October 2009
- September 2009
- August 2009
- July 2009
- June 2009
- May 2009
- April 2009
- March 2009
- February 2009
- January 2009
- December 2008
- November 2008
- October 2008
- September 2008
- August 2008
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
- March 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
- December 2007
- November 2007
- October 2007
- September 2007
- August 2007
- July 2007
- June 2007
- May 2007
- April 2007
- March 2007
- February 2007
- January 2007
- December 2006
- November 2006
- October 2006
- September 2006
- August 2006
- July 2006
- June 2006
- May 2006
- April 2006
- March 2006
- February 2006
- January 2006
- December 2005
- November 2005
- October 2005
- September 2005
- August 2005
- July 2005
- June 2005
- May 2005
- April 2005
- March 2005
- February 2005
- January 2005
- December 2004
- November 2004
- October 2004
- September 2004
- August 2004
- July 2004
- June 2004
- May 2004
- April 2004
- March 2004
- February 2004
- January 2004
- December 2003
- November 2003
- October 2003
- September 2003
- August 2003
- July 2003
- June 2003
- May 2003
- April 2003
- March 2003
- February 2003
- January 2003
- December 2002
- November 2002
- October 2002
- September 2002
- August 2002
- July 2002
- June 2002
- May 2002
