SIDAMO and HARAR are coffee growing regions in Ethiopia. It appears that those terms are widely used to refer to the beans grown in those regions. The Government of Ethiopia filed U.S. trademark applications for those terms. As far as I can discern from the PTO website, these are registrations for ‘regular’ registrations on the
STRIP HOUSE v STRIP STEAK (On The Strip)
WSJ Law Blog: “How Dare You Copy Our Goose Fat Fried Potatoes” (Owner of STRIP HOUSE protests use of name STRIP STEAK and trade dress in Las Vegas).
Answers To Our Tribute Band Question
The not always responsive answers to our question: ‘is there such a thing as an authorized tribute band (other than Beatlemania)?’ pour in.
Larry S. advises us of rasta metal band Dread Zeppelin, and points out that Robert Plant, at least, speaks favorably of them.
Eva R. advises us of a CTM registration for
I Just Go On And On About Trademarks In This Podcast
I’m interviewed for the Podcast Brothers’ podcast about securing and protecting trademark rights, specifically for podcasts. I do go on.
Tribute Brands and Authorized Touring Companies And Phish
Well there was a big chunk of afternoon.
I picked up the flyer pictured above, at lunch. I have never been to see a tribute band. Glenn has been to see Dark Star Orchestra and Dire Wolf.
We’ll ignore the copyright issue in the flyer other than to say ‘it’s better not to reproduce copyrighted
Question For You Re Tribute Bands
With the exception of Beatlemania, in the history of the world has there been such a thing as a licensed/endorsed/official tribute band?
This Is Not What Is Meant By Reverse-Domain Hijacking
Cybersquatters risk punitive damages of $100,000 per name to divert traffic through use of a confusingly similar domain name. Universal Tube of Pennsylvania, which sells machines for making metal tubes, owns the domain name UTUBE.COM. It received 65 million hits in August, most of them, no doubt, intended for YouTube. And is it happy? No.
Ouch
Someone asked on the INTA discussion list: how much does a survey for use in litigation cost and someone replied:
“Just did a likelihood of confusion survey conducted over telephone with
137 professional respondents and the cost was $48,000. Does not include
any depositions or trial testimony.”
The deposition or trial testimony referred to