As I discussed in a previous post, not all trademarks are created equal. While Apple for computers is very distinctive, there are some trademarks that are not distinctive enough to warrant any associated trademark rights. We call these generic trademarks. No one can protect or enforce trademark rights to a generic mark. In fact, a … Read more
A few months ago, I was feeling hobbled by my sports hobby. To borrow from the show Community, “it was the darkest timeline” for sports in St. Louis. The Rams, which weren’t exactly a ray of sunlight the last ten years in St. Louis, had somehow managed to make things worse by packing up and … Read more
Whether you watch it or not, you probably have heard by now that the new season of Game of Thrones begins tonight on HBO. Well, I’m definitely in the former category, and thought I would celebrate with a GoT-related post. Admittedly, I’m hooked hard. For me, the summer of 2012 will always be notable for … Read more
Most people probably see a trademark used in combination with the TM symbol or the ® symbol almost every day. But unless you have a business where you are consciously using trademarks, you may not know exactly what they mean. And even if you are using trademarks, you may not know exactly how these symbols should be … Read more
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