http://www.schwimmerlegal.com Trademark and copyright litigation and counseling Thu, 23 May 2013 14:29:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.schwimmerlegal.com/2010/01/the-toy-book-and-big-toy-book-v-big-book-of-toys.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-toy-book-and-big-toy-book-v-big-book-of-toys http://www.schwimmerlegal.com/2010/01/the-toy-book-and-big-toy-book-v-big-book-of-toys.html#comments Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:37:25 +0000 Marty Schwimmer http://schwimmerlegal_com.innosoftware.net/2010/01/the-toy-book-and-big-toy-book-v-big-book-of-toys.html
Publisher which had licensed Toys R Us to use THE TOY BOOK and BIG TOY BOOK (after dispute) sues for TRU continuing post-license use of BIG BOOK.
Complaint Big Toy Book

]]> http://www.schwimmerlegal.com/2010/01/the-toy-book-and-big-toy-book-v-big-book-of-toys.html/feed 0 http://www.schwimmerlegal.com/2005/10/harry-potter-and-the-reverse-confusion.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=harry-potter-and-the-reverse-confusion http://www.schwimmerlegal.com/2005/10/harry-potter-and-the-reverse-confusion.html#comments Thu, 27 Oct 2005 09:20:31 +0000 Marty Schwimmer http://schwimmerlegal_com.innosoftware.net/?p=1945 Via E Online: Real band WYRD SISTERS prevent fictional band WYRD SISTERS from performing on ‘Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire’soundtrack.
The (real) band’s leader articulated the typical ‘reverse confusion’ concern:
“They are so much more huge than us in their reach that we’ll go out on tour a month after the movie comes out–and we’ll go all over to Australia, to New Zealand–and people will wonder who are these strange people stealing the Harry Potter name.”
Judge Posner suggests that this might be product disparagement, not reverse confusion.
Hat tip: Nerdlaw.org.

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