Seedy Scores Suit
A Utah corporation, Scores Holding Company, Inc. (Utah Scores), which owns a chain of strip clubs (oh, the irony) filed suit on Tuesday in the US District Court for the…
SVN – Values Driven Success & Happiness
My favorite speaker of the conference thus far, John Miles, spoke to us today about Values-Driven Success through Happiness in Business. Yes! Business can be happy and fun. For John,…
SVN Workshop — Expanding your Brand’s Reach
I attended a workshop this afternoon called Building a Brand: Crafting the Messages that Expand Your Markets and Customer Base. The workshop was hosted by three panelists: Nettie Hartsock of…
SVN Workshop – Telling Your Story
SVN's Spring Member Gathering convenes socialprenuers from for-profit and non-profit enterprises who are working to change the world. The morning workshop I attended today was offered by Peter Forbes &…
Sheen Madness
Charlie Sheen has received great notoriety of late for acting poorly. As a result, Warner Brothers fired Sheen and canceled Two and a Half Men two shows prior to the…
TEDx Presidio: Inspiration by the Bay
Yesterday I attended TEDx Presidio. TEDx is a close cousin in the TED family of marks, about which I wrote last month. Our hosts for the day were Darian Rodriquez…
Exploring Letters of Protest
Anyone can file a Letter of Protest (LOP) with the PTO to alert it to information or documentation "bearing on the registerability of a mark." For example, a registrant who…
Patagonia Music – More Brilliance from my Favorite Brand
[iframe www.moe.org] Patagonia is a clothing company whose Mission Statement is: Build the best product, cause no unnecessary harm, use business to inspire and implement solutions to the environmental crisis.…
Unfriend(ly) Lawyers, Unfollow Charlie
Charlie Sheen just might agree with Brendan Behan, who famously said "there's no such thing as bad publicity [except your own obituary]." Mr. Sheen has received wide, mostly negative, attention as…
Loving the MIT Media Lab Logo
MIT Media Lab recently announced an awesome new logo, which consists of three colored searchlights that can be altered to create 40,000 different shapes, with 12 different color combinations. Each…