Consumer Law

Trademark Owners and Applicants Beware - Overstating the Goods and Services of Your Mark Can Result in Cancellation of the Registration
The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (?TTAB?) of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (?USPTO?) recently adopted a new standard for trademark applications that can have disastrous consequences for trademark owners...

Grokking Cyberlaw and How The Trademark Process Works
I saw a lot of you got incensed when you read EFF article about the lawyer applying for a trademark on Cyberlaw, so I thought you might like to know a few more details and a bit about how the trademark process works...

Trademark Fight: Yoko v. Lennon
On Tuesday, Techdirt conveyed news that Yoko Ono had filed "what is essentially a lawsuit" with the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office attempting to force musician Lennon Murphy to give up her trademark...

Copyright and Trademark FAQ
Thought I would post the Copyright and Trademark FAQ I will be handing out when I speak on “Intellectual Property Rights and Remedies” at the Canadian Special Events and Meetings Expo on April 1, 2008, at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre: “This session, which is taught at Ryerson University is a veritable guide to copyrights & [...

10th Circuit Holds Noncommercial Use of Trademark for Parody or Criticism Not Trademark Infringement or Cybersquatting
Cybersquatting is a highly fact-based area of the law. Sometimes the use of a trademark within a domain name, even where the trademark is fully appropriated, can be held to be a fair use...

The reasonable person in trademark law
The piece TEACHING INTELLECTURAL PROPERTY LAW: ARTICLE: THE REASONABLE PERSON IN TRADEMARK LAW by LAURA A. HEYMANN [52 St. Louis L.J. 781 (2008)] mentions LBE:n50. There are other ways in which to compare, for example, two colors...

Adidas Imitators
Payless Shoesource to pay $304.6 million settlement in trademark lawsuit.