BULLION is a mass of gold or silver. BOUILLON is a clear soup from beef. chicken or other meats.  BOUILLIOUN is a surname of a former president of Boeing and a registered trademark of Bouillioun Aviation Services.  BOUILLABAISEE is a fish chowder. 

Registrant filed for BOULLION.COM.  She testified in this UDRP that she had intended…

LEGO bricks, with their studs with 360 degrees of clutching power, lie in the interstices of several forms of intellectual property: patent, copyright and trade dress.  Its success forces Lego to fight on many fronts.  It has now prevailed on a copyright theory in China, against a company which copied its bricks.  Interestingly, the…

In this question to a small business advisor from entrepreneur.com, we disagree with the bit about hiring a patent lawyer to file a trademark application.  We also disagree with the bit about filing  trademark applications oneself.  Previous discussion on who should file here.

My theory is that the common confusion between patents and trademarks…

Washington Post editorial entitled “Free Mickey Mouse,” advocating “fix” of copyright system.

Monster Cable Products (perhaps you have their speaker wire), also sells alkaline batteries.  The packaging for the batteries claims that they last 25% longer than standard alkaline batteries.  Energizer, which, with Duracell and Rayovac, provides 95% of the standard alkaline batteries sold in the U.S.,  took umbrage at the clam and hired an independent lab…

Professor A. Michael Froomkin, one of the editors of ICANN Watch, has authored an upcoming article for the Harvard Law Review entitled “Habermas @ Discourse.net – Towards a Critical Theory of Cyberspace.”  The article suggests that the Internet Engineering Task Force is an admirable form of decision making body.  There is also a bit

At some point, the Supremes will render a decision in the VICTOR’S LITTLE SECRET case, which will tackle just what in the world one has to prove when one proves trademark dilution.  So, to prepare for cocktail parties with your trademark lawyer friends, you may wish to review:

1.  Oral Argument transcripts;

2.  Respondent’s…

Dulces Anahuac of Mexico sells salt-flavored lemon candy under the trademark LIMON 7.  It also apparently still makes candy cigarettes, but that’s another story.  It granted an exclusive license to Salt of the Earth to sell LIMON 7 candy in the U.S.  You can read from the complaint here, via Amlaw.com, how the…