EcoAd Under Fire for Greenwashing
Or is it???? Last week I received the following e-mail: [framed_box] Hi Lara, Please forgive the cold email, but I found your organization on the LOHAS site and truly appreciate…
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…
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…
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…
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…
How Trademarks are like Houses and Cars
My friend, Tim Greene, recently launched a company called Fizzlaw, whose mission is to connect small businesses with cost-effective lawyers who understand small businesses and align their goals with those…
Double Ug!! UGG 2010 Counterfeit results
Yesterday, I reported on the unfair competition and deceptive trade practices suit filed against Deckers by UGGLEBO for Deckers' use of the UGG trademark for clogs and footwear in the…
Genericide
Yesterday I wrote about the national news networks' copycat marks, while promising to explain genericide, today. Genericde is the term we trademark professionals use to describe the death of a…
News Goes Forward
As someone who doesn't have cable TV, I usually catch up on the Daily Show via computer on the weekends. This weekend while hiding inside from the winter storm, I…