There’s only one registered U.S. mark (HUSSEIN CHALAYAN) and no pending applications containing the HUSSEIN element. Friday time waster: go to Cafe Press and put in HUSSEIN as a search term.
Too Cheap To Matter
Wired: “Free! Why $0.00 Is The Future of Business“:
Zero marginal cost
What’s free: things that can be distributed without an appreciable cost to anyone. Free to whom: everyone.
This describes nothing so well as online music. Between digital reproduction and peer-to-peer distribution, the real cost of distributing music has truly hit bottom.
When Copies Are Free, You Need To Sell Things That Can’t Be Copied
Kevin Kelly: “Better Than Free“:
When copies are super abundant, they become worthless.
When copies are super abundant, stuff which can’t be copied becomes scarce and valuable.
When copies are free, you need to sell things which can not be copied.
Well, what can’t be copied?
via Dennis Kennedy.
19-0? Hopefully Misdescriptive.
Friday time-waster – do a trademark search for ’19-0′
The Trademark Blog Is A “Top Little-Known Technology Web Site”
We made Information Week’s list of the “Top 60 Little-Known Technology Web Sites.” They ate:
If branding and trademarks are something you care about, Martin Schwimmer’s Trademark Blog is an authoritative and fun read. Schwimmer is a lawyer specializing in trademark, copyright, and domain name law, and while not everything he writes about
Contents of the Current Issue of The Trademark Reporter
The Trademark Reporter® homepage has links to the full text of these articles for INTA members:
A Search-Costs Theory of Limiting Doctrines in Trademark Law
By Stacey L. Dogan and Mark A. Lemley
The Trademark Dilution Revision Act of 2006: Balanced Protection for Famous Brands
By Scot A. Duvall
Literal Falsity by Necessary Implication: Presuming
Georgetown Law Event Re TTAB Practice
43(B)log: Upcoming Trademark Event At Georgetown.
Shopdropping or Reverse Shoplifting
NY Times: “Anarchists in the Aisles? Stores Provide a Stage“:
Otherwise known as reverse shoplifting, shopdropping involves surreptitiously putting things in stores, rather than illegally taking them out, and the motivations vary.
Anti-consumerist artists slip replica products packaged with political messages onto shelves while religious proselytizers insert pamphlets between the pages of gay-and-lesbian
Lovells IP Newsletter
Many pieces worth reading in the Lovells September (sic) newsletter I received today including:
“When Does a CTM Have A Reputation in the Community” by Verena Bomhard
“New Relative Grounds System for UK Trademarks” by Anat Paz
“Stopping Comparative Advertising in the UK” by Sahira Khwaja
“Russia’s Highest court Confirms H&M’s Success Against Company Name
$200k For First Year Associates
NY Lawyer and other publications report that with bonuses, New York first year associates are getting $200k at the top firms. Figure 2000 hours per year thats $100/hr in salary. Figure you have to get three times the salary, you have to bill the first year at $300/hr. Wow.