EXPO WEST Day 1
Let the madness begin! Where do you find 56,000 of your closest friends in the organic and natural product, product space, including product purveyors, consumers/users, and service providers? Why EXPO…
A Lawsuit in the Twilight
Bath & Body Works Brand Management, Inc. (BBW) filed suit against Summit Entertainment, LLC (Summit) in United States District Court for the Southern District of New York yesterday seeking a…
“R” What?!?
Somewhere in Los Angeles . . . That's right, folks. (For now), there's a head shop in Los Angeles called BUZZ "R" US. Geoffrey, LLC owns the famous TOYS "R"…
TED Rocks!
TED is an acronym for Technology, Entertainment and Design. Having been at TEDActive since Sunday (and gratefully staying till this coming Sunday), I can tell you it also could stand…
Betty Boop’s Bubble Bursts
Betty Boop was created by Max Fleischer in 1930. Fleischer sold his rights in the Betty Boop cartoon and character to Paramount Pictures (Paramount) in 1941. In 2006, Fleischer's heirs…
“Girlfriends by Design” Goes Down (to Jail)
On February 15, 2011, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) issued a press release stating that an ICE probe led to the arrest of the owner of a Bakersfield,…
Bad Debt Hurts Brand Image (or does it?)
Hollywood, Esq. (formerly THR, Esq., when or why the change, I'm unsure) reported today that George Clinton's "former law firm," Hendricks & Lewis, seeks to garnish the performer's wages to…
NAD Nullifies Nano-Tex Green Claims
On February 8, the National Advertising Division (NAD) of the Council of Better Business Bureaus made a recommendation that Applied Textiles (Allied) and Nano-Tex cease a wide range of advertising…
IP Heavyweights Weigh in on Brand Bullying
I have written about trademark bullying in relation to one of my client's experiences with Volkswagen and in general. I also blogged about this issue for a friend's blog, Smaller…
Aggressive Jeans
Recognize this? Levi Strauss & Co. (Levi's) bets you do, and I am inclined to agree. Levi's is very, very serious about its trademarks, including the LEVIS jeans tab: the…