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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

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

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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

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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