The Smoking Gun reproduces here a letter from Arnold Schwarzenegger’s lawyer to a manufacturer of Arnold bobble-heads. The letter alleges breach of right of publicity.
The first interesting question is: should an unauthorized bobble-head of an actor be treated differently from an unauthorized bobble-head of a public official?
Second, the next to last line
The Staff Committee of OHIM (the EEC entity tasked with administering the Community Trademark) has resigned en masse over working conditions. Via IPKat
Jockeys at this Saturday’s Kentucky Derby will be allowed to wear advertising logos, having been granted relief from a Kentucky law barring the practice, via Findlaw.
Jockey diagram from here.
Kentucky Derby site here.
Supreme Court of Canada to hear appeal of LEGO’s argument that its blocks, and their famous 360 degrees of clutching power, function as a trademark, via CBC.
Why don’t they make real houses out of really big LEGO blocks? It seems faster.
Say hello to me at the INTA meeting. Remember, my name badge won’t say The Trademark Blog, it will say Marty Schwimmer.
Information on MARTA, Atlanta’s rapid transit system here.
View this political video parodying The Apprentice, then read this decision in the Mastercard v. Nader2000 case.
Discuss NBC’s and Trump’s rights against TrueMajority (source of the video).
BrandChannel on non-conventional trademarks (sight, sound, smell).
Accusing a website of infringing your copyright when it is merely harvesting data (using software to extract data (such as pricing) from a website), may constitute defamation. A jury awarded $250,000 to the defamed data harvester. Via By No Other blog.
The findings of facts in hte matter, via BNA, is a useful analysis of
Opinion of the Advocate General in Henkel v. OHIM and Procter and Gamble v. OHIM, rejecting the registrability of three-dimensional trademarks, in this case tablets of compressed laundry detergent.
More EEC news here via IPKAT.
This article reports that the Chinese state-owned power company has built a replica of Hong Kong’s Peninsula Hotel (including use of the PENINSULA name and logo) in Yichang, in the Three Gorges area. The Peninsula Hotel Group has a hotel in Beijing.
Book your stay at the Beijing Peninsula here.
More on the Yichang Peninsula