LIKE Controversy? Facebook TMs lots of LIKE marks
Facebook is known to be pretty aggressive (some would say a bully), when it comes to its intellectual property rights. I am sure Facebook keeps multiple intellectual property lawyers, legal…
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…
Hells Angels pick fight with Amazon.com (over trademark infringement)
The World's Most Famous Motorcycle Club (the Hells Angels -- in case you've been living in a cave for the past sixty some odd years) filed a trademark infringement lawsuit on Monday…
Two Can Too Toucan, or Can They? Kellogs v. MAI
I've had a fun and engaging debate in the comments section of my last post with The Trademark Troll, Dick Troll, who most certainly is the only IP troll of any…
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…
Phish Phans Beware! Waldo Sued for TM Infringement (Again!)
Where's Waldo and why does everyone pick on him? If you're not into the "jam band" scene, then there's a good chance you don't even know who Waldo is. Waldo…
Geekview IP Week in Review
Comcast missed the goal when the Court declined to restrain DirecTV Soon on Sunday, they'll all be watching football. For now though the game is being played out in federal…
Blinking Irony — Blink 182 takes opposing stances on IP infringements
Apparently, even though rock band blink-182 is cool with its fans sharing its music in homemade music videos posted to YouTube, it is NOT OK with its fans selling…