obama myra

Plaintiff uses MYRA to promote retirement accounts. Barack Obama promoted the myRA retirement account in his State of the Union address. Plaintiff sues US Treasury for trademark infringement. In two minutes of Googling I found that there is a Trademark Remedy Clarification Act that purports to limit sovereign immunity with regard to trademarks and at least one Circuit decision that held that provision to be unconstitutional.

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myra v myra.pdf

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The International Trademark Association (“INTA”) is pleased to host the Sixth Annual Trademark Scholarship Symposium during the 137th INTA Annual Meeting in San Diego, California. The Symposium will take place on Monday, May 4, 2015 as part of INTA’s Academic Day and is an opportunity for trademark scholars from around the world (including part-time and full-time professors, graduate and post-graduate students) to participate in small group discussions of scholarly works-in-progress. Each selected scholar will present their project in a workshop setting, receive comments, and engage in a dialogue with other academic scholars and accomplished trademark practitioners.

Please send an abstract (approximately 300 words) describing a current trademark or unfair competition scholarship project to project co-chairs Julie Cromer Young at jcromer@tjsl.edu and Jim Faier at jmfaier@faier.com by November 1, 2014. The project team will then select a maximum of 8 projects to be presented at the Symposium, grouped into related topics or themes. Selections will be announced by February 1, 2015. For each selected project, a working draft of the paper (10-20 pages) must be submitted by March 15, 2015. There is no publication obligation.

Participants will receive complimentary registration to the Academic Day program, including an all-professor panel exploring boundaries of trademark law, a trademark professor luncheon, a reception and other networking opportunities. Additional expenses are the speaker’s responsibility. For INTA membership and Annual Meeting registration information, please contact Nilsa Laboy at nlaboy@inta.org.

blue cats trippin pabst-blue-ribbon-beer-650-ml-bottle1

The demand letter from the owners of the PABST mark was sent September 12. VIP Products, maker of chew toys for dogs which parody well-known trademarks, filed the declaratory judgment action on September 19. I have blogged about a previous DJ action brought by this plaintiff relating to CRISPAW (CRISTAL),

blue cats trippin v pabst blue ribbon.pdf

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ugg one baily button

Deckers (owner of the UGG brand) has been going after ‘Bailey Button’ knock-offs. I blogged a complaint against Wal-Mart here.

Deckers also sued JC Penney on multiple grounds. Penney moved to dismiss. The design patent action survived. The ‘passing off’ action was dismissed under Dastar, under the ‘please don’t use trade dress to create a perputual patent/copyright right’ rationale.