The Seattle Trademark Lawyer has a nice post on the impact of litigation websites on publicity and sales.
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Hershey Co. recently sued convicted trafficer Kenneth Affolter for selling pot-laced treats and soft drinks with the names Stoney Rancher, Rasta Reese’s and Keef Kat. Bummer dude.
UPDATE 5/23: Stoners unite to boycott Hershey.
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Just found this September 2006 law review article written by Shashank Upadhye:
Trademark Surveys: Identifying the Relevant Universe of Confused Consumers

TicketNews.com reports that ticket broker DerbyBox.com did not violate the terms of its Consent Decree with Churchill Downs.

The Holloywood Reporter, Esq. reports on two lawsuits brought by Oscar owner the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
The first involves AMPAS’s suit against the website Oscarwatch.com for trademark infringement [complaint]. THR, ESQ. quote’s AMPAS’s attorney, which sounds like a good PR quote to me:
“The Academy isn’t really pursuing monetary damages,” said David Quinto [...]

What’s INN? INN stands for International Nonproprietary Names which are the generic names used to identify pharmaceutical substances or active pharmaceutical ingredients. It’s a list of some 7000 names maintained by the World Health Organization. The purpose of INN is
to provide health professionals with a unique and universally available designated name to identify each pharmaceutical [...]

So I was reading my wife’s Marie Claire yesterday and came across this interesting backstory on the licensing of the Fig Newton trademark. [Yes, I'm not ashamed to say that I read my wife's magazines. I'm a bit of a magazine junkie.]
Newman’s Own Organics sell a fig cookie called Fig Newmans™. According to NOO’s website:
The [...]