Jeff Brandt is a patent lawyer,who, among his other accomplishments, was head of patents at Walker Digital when its Priceline subsidiary obtained its famous business process patent.  Jeff has his own firm now and I’m happy to say that he helps out my clients when they have patent needs.  Jeff has started a website called…

Rountable discussion: Popup ads and the law, via Gigalaw.

LaCoste has been ordered by the Beijing No. 2 Intermediate People’s Court to apologize and pay US$1 dollar (why a US dollar?) to the party it unsuccessfully sued regarding its crocodile logo.  Background here.

A Westerly Republican official purchased WESTERLYDEMOCRATS.COM.  Brou-ha-ha here.

Terminated distributor of ‘invisible fence’ for dogs continued to use trademarks of licensor.  2d Circuit affirms District court rulings on personal jurisdiction and injunctive relief.

Sunward Electronics v. McDonald, 03-7432 (2d Cir March 3, 2004).

Commentary on a famous American brand here.  It conjures the object of the parody without creating confusion.  Not work safe due to language.

p.s. Once I went into a Starbucks and asked for a medium and the person behind the counter asked “which medium?”

Go to the Trademark Office status database and type in 78328499.

The trademark application for this logo received a preliminary rejection from the US Trademark Office on the grounds that “this representation of nudity of the female form would be considered scandalous to a substantial composite of the general public.”  Via the INTA Listserv.