No, you can’t. What you may have meant to ask was:
How can I take advantage of a trend created by a popular manufacturer, such as Louis Vuitton, Fendi, et cetera, without violating their rights?
To which our litigation partner Glenn Mitchell responds:
Coming close to a popular design without going over the
Grambling State Universitiy to change ‘Packers-style’ G logo, perhaps inadvertently. Via Packers.scout.com.
Pictured left to right: the logos of Grambling, the Green Bay Packers, and the Georgia Bulldogs.
Wall Street Journal article (free link for now) re North Korea’s role in product counterfeiting..MARLBORO, MILD SEVEN and STATE EXPRESS 555 cigarettes are specifically mentioned.
Two new blogs with Regular IP content:
Silicon Valley Media Law Blog from attorney Cathy Kirkman of Wilson Sonsini.
Video Game Law Blog (really) from Canadian law firm Davis and Company.
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A Michigan county’s proposed logo for GET PUMPED for its municipal waste services, received a preliminary refusal from the Trademark Office and the local paper second guesses the trademark attorney. I’m not sure what the ‘all jurisdictional’ search was that cost $1500. Full U.S. searches are running about $500 from the big 3
Google Print is in beta, play around with it here. I already found something useful for a client’s fame file.
I found the argumentation in this Reuters piece on Creative Commons to be McCarthyesque (after McCarthy the red baiter, not the treatise author). Professor Lessig knows how to speak up for himself, but I still find the shamelessness of the tactics to be depressing.
Further to yesterday’s mention, here is the link to NPR’s story examining whether sales of counterfeit products are used to finance terrorism. With due respect to Prof Lemley, if the government has not made its case that there is such a link, that’s one thing, but the assertion that selling counterfeits is not the sort
American Needle Inc. v. New Orleans Louisiana Saints et al., No. 04 C 7806, 2005 WL 1126537 (N.D. Ill., E. Div. May 5, 2005):
Plaintiff held a non-exlusive license from the NFL to create apparel and headwear with NFL team logos. The NFL didn’t renew and granted Reebok and exclusive license. Plaintiff sued on antitrust
The Copyright Office is offerring RSS news feeds (the first line of the COpyirght Office’s page answers the question: ‘what is a RSS news feed).