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On May 27, Tesla, Inc. filed three separate trademark applications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to use its name and logos for "restaurant services, pop-up restaurant services, self-service restaurant services, take-out restaurant services." The...
First it was removing her music from Spotify. She followed that with submitting numerous trademark applications protecting some lyrical phrases from her new album for a variety of goods. Now, she purchased taylorswift.porn and taylorswift.adult. Wait…what?...
It’s March. That can only mean one thing: basketball…and lots of it. After watching my Fighting Illini play themselves out of the B1G Tournament yesterday while simultaneously hurting their NCAA tournament chances, clearly the only thing left for me to do...
Do you own, or are you thinking about opening up, a restaurant? Aside from having some good food, you’ve probably also cooked up a name you like, but have you thought about securing rights to that restaurant trademark? Your customers will identify you by your...
I came across an interesting story (find it here) regarding an image used in a photography contest in the UK a few years ago. As the article notes, while on a cruise in Chile, a passenger, Sarah Scurr, snapped a photograph in 2006 and entered it into a...
Recently, I wrote about two different trademarks that were applied for by the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots of the NFL. This week is a good time to expand on those posts as both teams are about to meet in the Super Bowl this coming Sunday. I’ll...
On January 12, 2015, Lagunitas Brewing Company filed a complaint against Sierra Nevada for trademark infringement. Contrary to popular belief, Lagunitas is not claiming that it owns the rights to use the IPA abbreviation for “India Pale Ale.” Instead,...
Last year after the Seattle Seahawks won the Super Bowl, I wrote...
The Coca-Cola Company recently filed intent to use trademark applications for...
Turn on ESPN these days and you are bound to hear about the the New England...
At first glance, the trademark process seems relatively simple where you say...
A utility patent is what most people are referring to when they say “I want to...
A provisional patent application acts as a placeholder for a later filed...
