Mattel requested that the Supreme Court hear its appeal of the Ninth Circuit decision in the BARBIE GIRL case (via Law.com).  This is the source of the now-famous “The parties are advised to chill” order, reported here.

China has apparently blocked all blogs hosted by Blogspot (this is a Userland blog and hasn’t been blocked (yet)).  For details, see Scripting News.

is the real deal.  Click here.

If you are losing your trademark suit at the trial level, then, as I always advise my clients, the options are settlement or appeal, not murdering the judge.

To the person who came to my site using the Google term “Find Current Addresses Boat Owners Saudi Arabia,” I’m sorry to disappoint you, but as long as you’re here, would you like to file a trademark application?

By the way, the previous item I ran on someone getting here via “Days of the Week…

This is an important ECJ decision clarifying the protection of well-known marks.  Davidoff has a famous stylized logo which it uses in part for jewelry.  A Hong Kong company named Gofkid adopted the name DURFFEE and used virtually the same script I cannot find a specimen of the logo on the web.  Davidoff sued, arguing…

Icann Watch has shamed me into commenting on Singapore’s application to register .SG (the country-code for Singapore) as a trademark, by wondering out loud what the Trademark Blog thinks on this.  I had ignored the time yesterday because, to paraphrase Stephen Daedulus, “Domain Name politics is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.” …

Coverage of Intel’s new CENTRINO brand.

p.s. Intel registered the centrino.com domain name back in February.  It filed trademark applications for CENTRINO and INTEL INSIDE CENTRINO in October.