Via cnn.com, a minor league baseball franchise, the Calgary Cannons (a Marlins affiliate), is moving to New Mexico, where it will be re-named the Albuquerque Isotopes, in honor of Homer Simpson’s favorite team, the Springfield Isotopes, which, in Episode 15, Year 12 of  The Simpsons, was moved by its owner, Duff Beer, from Springfield to…

 The Trademark Blog has previosuly discussed appellations of origin.  Here is another example – this article describes how glassmakers in Murrano in Italy must take steps to protect their island’s name as a source of glassware.

This is Ebay. 

This is eGray, a site which comments on Californa Governor Gray Davis and California politics. 

This is Dr. Seuss Enterprises v. Penguin, the “Cat Is Not In The Hat” decision, in which the author mimicked Dr. Seuss’ literary and artistic style to comment on the O.J. Simpson case. …

Initial Interest Confusion doctrine is an important concept and I had hopes when I saw that Posner, J. was sitting on a panel hearing such a case.   Unfortunately, he didn’t write the decision and all we received was a somewhat simplistic endorsement of a controversial doctrine.

Equitrac competes with Promatek’s COPITRAK product.  At the urging of…

The question as to whether Apple Footwear’s Apple design is confusingly similar to Guandong Apples’ Apple design may not involve novel issues of trademark law, but this article via China Daily indicates that this is the first preliminary injunction issued under the Peoples’ Republic of China’s revised Trademark law, makes the case of great import. …

Via Icann Blog, a decision where registrant inadvertently failed to renew, a domain name company snapped the name up, and registrant successfully sued to get it back.

Blogging was disrupted as Schwimmerlegal moved its entire legal staff to Mt. Pleasant, NY (right next to Armonk).  A tip of the hat to Benjamin and Ed and the guys at Value Electronics (see valueelectronics.com) for installing the satellite dish that brings this blog to you.  We now resume regular programming.

No criminal liability of wholesaler for printing trademark on re-packaged goods, via law.com.