T-Mobile parent Deutsche Telekom recently sent Engadget a cease and desist letter over Engadget’s use of the color magenta in its Engadget Mobile news blog. Engadget’s response is to go magenta. Others, such as Clinton Fitch and Gear Bits have joined Engadget in solidarity. Jaffe Juice uses a magenta avatar with the words T-Mobile Sucks for […]

I was flipping through my Sirius dial and heard Hugh Heffner talking about the start of Playboy mangazine.  Apparently, the original name was to be Stag Party.  Just before publication, he got a cease and desist letter from the attorney that represented Stag Magazine.  Because of the letter, Hef changed the name of his magazine […]

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, […]

From the Seattle Trademark Lawyer.
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The Seattle Trademark Lawyer has an excellent post on the lessons many bands learn the hard way, that is having to change their band’s name after they receive a cease and desist letter from another band (or their attorney):
Up-and-coming bands seem to re-live this story again and again. Blink 182 was Blink before another group […]