IP Bloggers TTABlog, IPKAt and yours truly will be hosting a get-together Tuesday night, May 9, 9:30, at the BeerBistro (several blocks from the Conference hotel).
Come before, during or after the Thompson and Thompson event, for a little quiet time. Share your favorite Stoller story, volunteer to become a country correspondent for the Trademark
April 2006
AIPLA On the SubSection/Section Issue In HR 683
By Marty Schwimmer on
Posted in What Is This Thing Called Dilution?
Read the post below, then this letter from AIPLA to the House Judiciary Committee. If I had to try my hand at explaining at what’s going on it would be this:
Section 43(c)(4), presently enumerates certain defenses under this ‘section.’ INTA takes the view that the use of ‘section’ rather than ‘subsection’ was a drafting…
Does the 43(c) Revision Remove Defenses to 43(a)?
By Marty Schwimmer on
Posted in What Is This Thing Called Dilution?
Section 43 (a) of the Lanham Act covers false designations and false descriptions. 43(c) applies to dilution. 43(c)(4) reads:
(4) The following shall not be actionable under this section:
(A) Fair use of a famous mark by another person in comparative commercial advertising or promotion to identify the competing goods or services of the…
‘Google Sued In Israel For Search Ad Trademark Dispute’
By Marty Schwimmer on
Posted in Search Engines
Search Engine Watch: ‘Google Sued In Israel For Search Ad Trademark Dispute.’
German Supreme Court Case On FIFA Mark
By Marty Schwimmer on
Posted in International
‘Puzzle Embedded in ‘Da Vinci Code’ Ruling’
By Marty Schwimmer on
Posted in Copyright
NY Times: “Puzzle Embedded in ‘Da Vinci Code’ Ruling.”
Will The Real NEC Please Stand Up?
By Marty Schwimmer on
Posted in Counterfeits
International Herald Tribune: ‘Next step in pirating: Faking a Company.’
Government-Mandated Warnings Re Sexual Content?
By Marty Schwimmer on
Posted in Scandalous and Immoral!
News.com: Gonzales Calls For Mandatory Web Labeling Law (Site operators face 5 years in prison for violating rating system intended “prevent people from inadvertently stumbling across pornographic images on the Internet.”).
To the extent that I ever feature salacious material, it’s to get people to inadvertently stumble across trademark law.
“I Invented . . . The Apple Logo”
By Marty Schwimmer on
Posted in Branding
SyncMag: “I Invented . . . the Apple Logo.”
Three Years In A Barrel In Scotland
By Marty Schwimmer on
Posted in International
From the Wiki entry for Scotch Whiskey:
” [T]he Scotch Whisky Order of 1990 which clarified the Scotch Whisky Act of 1988, and mandates that the spirit:
Must be distilled at a Scottish distillery from water and malted barley, to which only other whole grains may be added, have been processed at that distillery…