12 Sep 2013
What do UPS, Tiffany, and 3M have in common? Chocolate brown trucks, robins-egg blue colored jewelry boxes, and canary yellow sticky notes. Chocolate brown, robins-egg blue, and canary yellow. Color, color, color is the answer of course! These are the distinctive colors that these prominent companies use to identify themselves. It may be more apt...
22 Jul 2013
Las Vegas was one of the major American cities to be hit hardest by the global recession of 2008. People aren’t in a hurry to gamble away what little money they have in a depression, and this substantially affected Las Vegas tourism for the past couple of years. However, it seems that the famous city...
22 Jul 2013
One of the most remarkable developments of the past few years has been 3D printing, a system that can literally print a solid object using only a design and some plastic polymers. The applications for such a device are seemingly endless. It can print cheap food for impoverished third world nations and solve world hunger!...
12 Jul 2013
Much to my dismay, this article has nothing to do with elves, goblins, or trolls, but an epic legal battle is looming on the horizon, and it may bring new meaning to the oft repeated phrase, “One ring to rule them all”, made famous by celebrated author of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, J.R.R....
10 Jul 2013
Counterfeiting conjures a rather specific image whenever it is brought up in conversation. Most would imagine some thugs hiding out in a dark basement where a heavy machine consistently prints out reams and reams of fake money. While this is the most notable example of counterfeiting, it is hardly the only example; intellectual property has...
9 Jul 2013
Counterfeiting has been a developing topic in the last few years for many reasons. While it use to be that finding counterfeit products meant going through black markets and unsavory characters to reach such tainted goods, today, one need only look to the internet. Whether through eBay, Amazon, or any other website, counterfeit products are...
2 Jul 2013
Frank Zappa is a legend in the history of contemporary music. In the 27 years before his death in 1993, he released a mind-boggling 62 studio albums, just over two a year every year. These albums included the critically acclaimed Freak Out, which can lay claim to being both the first concept album and one...
20 Jun 2013
On October 19, 2006, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board’s (the Board) decision to deny registration of the mark “Rebel” for grass seed on the grounds that the mark is a generic designation of the seed and therefore not entitled to registration. Pennington Seed, Inc....
7 Jan 2012
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a district court ruling that defendant’s request for an injunction on a theory of trademark infringement under 15 U.S.C.S. § 1114(1) was barred by laches. Tillamook Country Smoker v. Tillamook County Creamery Association, Case No. 04-35843 (9th cir., Oct. 11, 2006). Defendant Tillamook County Creamery...