2007

The Trademark Office rewards use of a check-off list for identifying goods and services as opposed to free-text entry, by providing a $50 per class discount. However many new and specific goods and services aren’t in the PTO’s ID Manual of goods and services. Carl Oppedahl points out that you may suggest the inclusion of…

Ron, a copyright lawyer from D.C., talks about the Tur v YouTube copyright case (involving the LA Riot footage). 10 minutes.

Reuters: Trade Group To Contest Copyright Warnings:
“A computer-industry trade group plans to file a complaint with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday, alleging that several content companies are overstepping bounds with their copyright warnings, the Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site.
The Computer and Communications Industry Association, which represents such…

MiamiHerald.com” “Fight Develops Over ‘Fashion Week“:
“Fashion aficionados know that in Miami, there are three separate runway events that all get referred to loosely as ”fashion weeks”: Fashion Week of the Americas, Funkshion Fashion Week Miami and, most recently, Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Miami Swim.
That’s a lot of fashion and a lot of…

I was on the train last night. I received an email from a client asking if its application had been opposed. I used the web browser feature on the iPhone and by dint of perserverance and rapt attention to what key I was hitting, I logged onto TESS, entered the mark, looked at the TTAB…

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McCormick, the spice company, has registration no 2,183,132, for a mark consisting of:
“the configuration of a round bottle that abruptly narrows at approximately one-third distance from the bottom. The bottle then remains a straight cylinder up to the cap. The cap is a round cylinder with sets of three raised vertical lines, spaced evenly…