Will “Where’s The Beef?” Become Actionable Under Proposed Dilution Law?
This is the proposed fair use passage of H.R. 683, the Trademark Dilution Revision Act:
`(3) EXCLUSIONS- The following shall not be actionable as dilution by blurring or dilution by tarnishment under this subsection:
`(A) Fair use of a famous mark by another person in comparative commercial advertising or promotion to identify the competing goods
‘Authors Guild Warns On Trademark Protection Bill’
43(b)log Reports Back
More On Whether INTEL INSIDE Is Out
In connection with rumors that the INTEL INSIDE mark will be dropped, IPKat provides a gallery of tarnishing images of the INTEL INSIDE mark which makes one wonder: Is tarnishment proof of fame?
Note: the IPKat entry starts with a non-Intel item on geographical indications that is worth reading as well.
Gotta Catch Them All
Nintendo, owner of the Pokemon property, has protested the use of the name POKEMON by scientist Pier Paolo Pandolfi (pictured above) to refer to the POK erythroid myeloid ontogenic gene in his Nature article “Role of the proto-oncogene Pokemon in cellular transformation and ARF repression.”
SPAM on spam
Position statement from Hormel, owner of the SPAM trademark, discussing use of ‘spam’ for un-solicited commercial email.’ Statement properly includes attribution to Monty Python.