For all ye namers out there, there’s an excellent blog that goes by the moniker The Name Inspector. This guy really digs into the origin of names, as in this post about Skype. Other excellent posts include this one and this one regarding the ten name types.
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Tim Bray gives us a peek into Sun’s internal Open Source Review process. Tim wrote some code he called the Atom Protocol Exerciser, or APE for short. He wanted to release it, but he had to go through Sun’s approval process first.
There are a bunch of steps. You have to get approval from your own […]

There’s a nice article on BrandWeek regarding the recent string of victories schools have been racking up in enforcing their school trademarks.

As these lawsuits show, colleges and universities are on the legal warpath to protect their trademarks. Why? It’s something that any marketing major in these schools likely learns in freshman year: Licensing translates to […]

In this month’s IP Today: How the Band Protects Its Brand: The Use of Trademarks to Protect and Promote the Musical Artist (Part One of a Two-part Article).

Nancy at Away With Words has a great post regarding the New York Times‘ article In a Global Marketplace, Claiming a Name Becomes an Art in Itself. And leave it to a namer to come up with an excellent title to her blog post: It’s Hard Out Here for a Namer. Now, I […]

Coke vs. Coke Zero. This is a great site from Coke Zero wherein the Coke team asks some unsuspecting lawyers if they can sue the Coke Zero team for taste infringement.

I’m not sure a press release is an appropriate place for one seeking help in a TTAB proceeding, but Kent G. Anderson of futurevisionaries.com apparently thought it was. The title of his release? Because I don’t have enough funds, the Brand FUTURE and people’s rights will not be equally represented in the oppositions by Pep […]