The News & Observer reports that the New York State Department of Economic Development’s opposition to the registration of “I ? NC” was recently dismissed by the Patent and Trademark Office. NYSDED opposed stating that the I ? NC mark is likely to cause confusion with its I ? NY mark. Unfortunately for NYSDED, it […]

Inspired by the Brand Autopsy’s Marketing Bloggers Bracketology post, I decided to put up a bracket for blawgs, i.e. legal blogs. This is for entertainment purposes only, so please, no betting.
Anyways, the blogs that I included are those that I’m aware of, or of blogs that were linked to from other blogs. Of course, I’m […]

A few months back, Marty Schwimmer posted about the uproar in Katonah, NY about Martha Stewart’s attempt to register the mark KATONAH for indoor lighting, paints, home furnishings, and furniture.
The town expresses concern as to the effect that Martha Stewart’s ownership of the KATONAH trademark. However, there will be no effect. The local businesses will […]

In order to bury this embarrassing post wherein I said “Happy World Intellectual Property Day” a month in advance, I hope to put forth a flurry of posts.

Tech Tags: WIPO intellectual property transparency

This year’s theme is Encouraging Creativity.
Egg on Face Update: Next month on the 26th is World Intellectual Property Day, not this month. Gotten ahead of myself : )

Trademark news from the Anna Nicole Smith front. Larry Birkhead has applied to register the trademark GOODNIGHT MY SWEET ANNA BABY for “movies, books, television programs, programs broadcast over the Interent, programs broadcast over electronic media; stage plays.” Birkhead used this line at Anna Nicole’s funeral service.
PTO search shows no applications yet filed from Virgie […]

eWeek posted a story titled “Is Red Hat Acting Like Microsoft?” Next eWeek posts a story that “Red Hat Responds to Claims It’s the ‘Next Microsoft’” InfoWorld blog’s about eWeek’s story as much ado about …?
So what’s going on here. Well, it all started with Bill Dudney’s blog post (but eWeek links to another blog, […]