Trademark Registration – Name Portrait Consent
When applying for federal trademark registration, some rules bite applicants in the butt more often than others. I suspect that the Name Portrait Consent rules are one of those. Under…
Sugar Companies Try to Cane Corn Association
This past September I wrote about a lawsuit pitting sugar against corn. Initially, two sugar manufacturers sued the Corn Refiners Association (CRA) and six high fructose corn syrup (HFCS)…
Geekview IP Weeks(ish) in Review
Universal's Takedown Notice goes up in smoke. Universal Music Group (UMG) recently issued a Takedown Notice to YouTube instructing it to remove a song by the Florida based rap band,…
Honda Held Accountable for False Advertising of Civic Hybrid
Sometimes small claims court is the way to go for dispute resolution. While you might think that to be the case only when the stakes are low, a California woman…
Geekview IP Weeks(ish) in Review Con’t.
Holy Super Bowl®! To some folks these images are synonymous, at least on the holy day of Super Bowl Sunday. The National Football League (NFL) takes football very seriously and…
Geekview IP Weeks(ish) in Review
Fake flavor packets fuel legal fury. Tropicana -- No pulp, but plenty of litigation. In my 2012 Geekview New Year's edition, I wrote about a federal class action lawsuit recently filed…
In & Out Infringement
How on Earth did we manage before God invented Google alerts? Google alerts are an awesome thing. They provide me daily links to relevant news about intellectual property and…
Geekview IP Weeks(ish) in Review
Something about this stinks! Sean Combs is a man of many hats. And just as many names: Puff Daddy, Puff, Puffy, P.Diddy, Diddy & Sean John. Who can keep track of…
Sears Wacks 13 Year Old WEEDWACKER Infringers
I often find myself writing about lawyers getting in the way. This case is a great example of just that! According to an article on CBS Sacramento, "[t]here is…
BLACK OUT! SOPA and PIPA are BAD, BAD LAW
Where'd everybody go? Google, Wikipedia, Wired and Craigslist are blacked out in protest of the most dangerous IP legislation ever proposed: SOPA & PIPA. SOPA stands for the…