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More news on the open source / trademark front. eWeek reports on Ubuntu’s trademark policy.
Trademarks have recently become something of an issue in open-source circles. Debian, for example, recently took exception to Mozilla’s Firefox trademark rules and called its version of the popular browser, IceWeasel. So, Ubuntu has decided to address possible trademark issues by […]

Law review article by John M. Conley and Jayne C. Hunter - The Curse of History: Good Bank Brands Make Bad Bank Trademarks.
From the conclusion:
From a normative standpoint, it is clear that trademark law has never offered any special accommodations to the banking business, and shows no likelihood of doing so in the future. Nor […]

Auctioneer Bonhams & Butterfields has for sale the ‘Brough Superior’ Trademark and Logos. This Lot consists of the UK, European Community and Japan rights to the trademark and company name, ‘Brough Superior Engineering Limited’ and its associated logos. [HT: Motor Cyclist]
The Trademark, ‘Brough Superior Engineering Limited’ is registered in the UK under ‘1457563’ (renewable in […]

Not trademark or branding related, but what a rush. Watch as Alstom, the French Rail Network and SNCF break the world rail speed record by attaining the speed of 574.8 km/hr (that’s 357.16 miles per hour for us Americans). Interesting that the record speed had to be officially ratified by two lawyers!
574,8 Km/h […]

Alex Graham has an excellent post about the trademark/IP dust up between Amazon’s Alexa Internet and Ron Hornbaker, creator of the very popular alexaholic.com (now known as statsaholic.com).

Venturing off the trademark path, Marty Schwimmer has a nice post regarding the use of music in audio visual works. His short post illustrates the complexities involved.