IPKat on WIPO’s report on trademark filing statistics. The largest filed under the Madrid System? Henkel.
February 2005
Ty Stripped of Judgment For Witness Tampering
Softbelly plush bean bag dolls have chamois surfaces used to clean computer screens. At one point they were named SCREENIE BEANIES. Owners of the BEANIE BABY mark, Ty, sued, and prevailed. Ty has now been ordered to forfeit its $700k judgement for tampering with an expert witness who was allegedly prepared to testify that BEANIE had become…
‘Mis-classified’ Goods/Services in Extension to U.S. of a Madrid Application
A letter has been circulated to non-U.S. trademark owners by a U.S. law firm indicating that if they were to extend an International Application to the U.S. under the Madrid Protocol, were the U.S. Trademark Office to rule that some or all of the goods/services are mis-classified under U.S. practice, those goods/services, rather than being re-classified (as would…
Issues Re Open Source Software Trademarks
Trademark lawyer Anthony Tambourino noted the Red Hat free-distribution trademark story below and writes:
There are a couple of issues to watch out for when representing an “open source” client.First, be clear who the owner of the trademark is. There are thousands (literally) of open source projects (See SourceForge). Often, a half-dozen programmers (a/k/a
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In Heaven There Is No Beer
Brandchannel on the relationship of beer brands to their country of origin.
Siemens on brewing beer here.
Red Hat Re Use of Trademarks on Free Distribution Software
Via Slashdot: Red Hat, a Linux distributor, protests third-party use of RED HAT on free software distributed by Red Hat. Contains disucssion of treatment of trademarks in free-distribution scenario.
Tabasco v. Tabascos
The owners of the TABASCO sauce trademark have sued the owner’s of TABASCO’S MEXICAN RESTAURANT AND PATIO, a restaurant in Iowa, named after the state in Mexico.
History of TABASCO sauce here.
Information regarding visiting the Tabasco Plantation on Avery Island, Lousiana, here.
Information regarding visiting the Tabasco state in Mexico here
Slate On Wealth Created By Fat Fingers
Slate article on the typo ecnomy the Internet has spawned.
Chameleon Re-formats Bloglines
Chameleon is a service that sits on top of your Bloglines account and re-formats the way Bloglines displays feeds and folders.
Ad Parodies
From an ad parody site.