Geekview IP Week in Review
Traverse City Shorts traverses Traverse City Film Festival. Though its name is longer, the shorts festival features films that are shorter than feature films (films that are 40 minutes…
Frustrated Trademark Attorney Examines Frustrated Marks
Sometimes being a trademark lawyer can be frustrating. Sometimes just being a human can be frustrating! Several USPTO trademark registration applicants apparently thought frustration was such a common feeling they…
Geekview IP Week in Review
Re-branding high fructose corn syrup "corn sugar" puts Corn Refiners in a sticky situation Most LOHAS consumers and other health conscious individuals do their best to avoid high fructose corn…
LIKE Controversy? Facebook TMs lots of LIKE marks
Facebook is known to be pretty aggressive (some would say a bully), when it comes to its intellectual property rights. I am sure Facebook keeps multiple intellectual property lawyers, legal…
ChicoBag Fends off False Advertising Suit
Back in May, I wrote about a lawsuit filed by plastic bag makers Hilex Poly, Superbag and Advance Polybag against multi-use bag manufacturer ChicoBag. …
Geekview IP Week(s) in Review
Judge rolls away $1.3 billion barrel over which Oracle had SAP. Oracle sued SAP for copyright infringement, violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and various state-law claims.…
Trademark Attorney Ponders Parody — Yankees v Evil Enterprises
Two Fridays ago I wrote about the world famous Hells Angels motorcycle club and today I've moved onto the world's second most famous baseball club (after the Red Sox, of…
Burning Man’s Burning Marks
Had my blog been functioning properly, you would have seen a post on August 31 announcing my Burning Hiatus (as well as two others on 08/28 & 08/30). While I…
Geekview IP Week in Review
Vegetarian lawyer sues Chipotle for porking him! If the fraud and false advertising claims in the class action lawsuit reported on here are accurate, then the ad above appears to…
Hells Angels pick fight with Amazon.com (over trademark infringement)
The World's Most Famous Motorcycle Club (the Hells Angels -- in case you've been living in a cave for the past sixty some odd years) filed a trademark infringement lawsuit on Monday…