Labeling to Save the Planet: GreenBlue’s New Program is FTC Green Guide Compliant
If your community recycles -- you can find out here if you're not sure -- then you probably are familiar with the plastic recycling symbols shown here: As if this…
Geekview IP week in Review — WTF Edition
I always suspected engaging in S&M might expose the participants to litigation. The accomplished photographer, artist and director, David LaChapelle, sued performing artist Rihanna for copyright infringement, trademark infringement, unfair…
Great-Grandma Gets Grumpy, Fights for her Rights (of Publicity)
A friend sent me an article about a great-grandmother who was irked over the use of her image in an ad supporting an Ohio voter referendum, Issue 2. If passed,…
Apple Tribute Infringement?
On October 5, 2011 Steve Jobs died and the world lost a great man. In honor, one of my tech friends, Eric Greenspan of Make It Work, posted the…
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
Only in a trademark lawyer's fantasy . . . Parfums de Coeur, self-described as "a dominant marketer in the United States of women's and men's mass market fragrance brands under…
Tit for Tat, Lawsuit for Tattoo
On Saturday my friend, Duane Peterson, e-mailed me a link to a New York Times article about a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by Mike Tyson's tattoo artist, S. Victor Whitmill…
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…