Important lessons from this case:
1. Singing telegrams spread cheer by bringing laughs into the workplace, home, public entertainment or party.
2. It is implausible to believe that if you wear a banana costume to perform a singing telegram in a workplace event, that someone won’t take a photo of you and post it on
If you’re thinking of attending Meet The Bloggers X, please click here to RSVP.
I’ve been blogging about the doctrine of ‘reputation without use’ since forever. Under what circumstances can the owner somewhere, enforce trademark rights in a jurisdiction where it doesn’t have priority by means of a registration or use in that country. Look from the inside out, that is, consider famous U.S. trademarks, such as FACEBOOK, GOOGLE
shutterstock typo-squatting complaintshutterstock typo-squatting complaint
var docstoc_docid=’168562593′; var docstoc_title=’shutterstock typo-squatting complaint’; var docstoc_urltitle=’shutterstock typo-squatting complaint’;
The District Court rejects the Lousiana Lt Governor’s suit against MoveOn relating to MoveOn’s parody of a Lousiana tourism slogan to criticize the Governor’s policy on medicare. Background here.
As to the Lt Governor’s argument that under a ‘cat is not in the hat’ theory, MoveOn was improperly borrowing the Lt Governor’s property to
radianacy v viatekradianacy v viatek
var docstoc_docid=’168410699′; var docstoc_title=’radianacy v viatek’; var docstoc_urltitle=’radianacy v viatek’;
Discussion of reasonable hourly rates in the New York market.
sub-zero v zub-zero repairsub-zero v zub-zero repair
var docstoc_docid=’168403440′; var docstoc_title=’sub-zero v zub-zero repair’; var docstoc_urltitle=’sub-zero v zub-zero repair’;
A trademark is abandoned if its ‘use in commerce’ has been discontinued with no intent to resume use. The intent to resume use must be formulated without the three years of non-use. Plaintiff ceased use at the end of 2002. It attempted to sell the assets of the business in ’03 and ’04, but that
Decker (owner of the Uggs brnad) claims trade dress and owns a design patent covering its ‘Bailey Button’ style, two versions of which are depicted on top. The Bailey Button style is characterized by: (1) suede boot styling, (2) overlapping of front and rear panels on the lateral side of the boot shaft; (3) curved
bad to the bone complaintbad to the bone complaint
var docstoc_docid=’168359247′; var docstoc_title=’bad to the bone complaint’; var docstoc_urltitle=’bad to the bone complaint’;