I started the Trademark Blog ten years ago today. I was inspired by Bret Fausett’s ICANN blog and Prof Froomkin’s ICANN WATCH. Dave Winer had created software called Radio Userland that made blogging easy. Nathan Hoover set the thing up for me. At some point SpryNewMedia began providing hosting.
When reviewing some of the posts
context: I get emails from PR firms.
Dear Marty,
Donna Summer, the “Queen of Disco” famous for hits including “Last Dance”, “Love to Love You Baby” and “Bad Girl”, died early this morning after a long battle with cancer. Now that she has departed, questions will be raised regarding the intellectual property – the trademarks,
Whenever I forget that the Jets traded for Tebow, someone reminds me. Here’s a demand letter from Tebow’s attorney (Tebow is likely not arguing that the term JESUS infringes rights in his name, voice or likeness but is referring instead to the ad copy – see the exhibit). The website cubbytees.com is showing a ‘suspended
The Purple Heart is the oldest U.S. military decoration, given to soldiers killed or wounded in service. Plaintiff is the Military Order of the Purple Heart Service Foundation, Inc. The Service Foundation is the exclusive national fundraiser for the Military Order of the Purple Heart, a Congressionally chartered membership organization of Purple Heart medal recipients,
Stockton Enterprises, Inc. v. Global Advertizing, LLC / kerry schorsch (company controlled by golfer Dick Stockton obtains STOCKTONGOLF.COM – registrant indicated that it was used to refer to Golf in the City(ies) of Stockton):
Welcome to www.stocktongolf.com. A Global network directory of Stockton golf. Golf courses, tee times, golf shops, supplies, equipment, golf real estate
From here.
. . . because then I would learn who Otter Products is and why it filed 13 trademark lawsuits in May, 11 of them on Monday.
Dear US Trademark Office:
I received the email below from the good people at TMOfficalNotices regarding a Notice of Publication. I have two wishes for these. (1) They include the mark in the subject, or first line; and (2) The date is a clickable link that creates a MS Outlook ‘event.’
your pal,
Marty
NOTIFICATION
Plaintiff produces live performances of the Marvelettes, or Marvelletes, or something, but as Motown, or the Marvelletes, or whoever it was that sang “Please Mr. Postman”, never abandoned the mark, so plaintiff couldn’t obtain common law rights vis-a-vis defendant.
AAA sues Howard Johnson Express Inn of Monterey for unauthorized use of the AAA logo. The photo above is from TripAdvisor.