Protecting brands in the Internet age
Remember the Marlboro Man, that stalwart image forever linked to the American West? A symbol of ruggedness, he was used by the Philip Morris tobacco company to sell millions and millions of cigarettes from 1954 to 1999.
Close gaps in your IP protection
Protecting a company’s intellectual property can create benefits. An incomplete IP strategy, however, may leave a company with gaps that undermine the efforts (and expenses) that it took to protect its IP in the first place.
Bankruptcy — trademarks
11-3920 Sunbeam Products, Inc., v. Chicago American Manufacturing, LLC
BLAWG LOG: Pettit on Violating Fair Housing Laws; Russell on Protecting Trademarks
Three Wisconsin landlords have recently been charged with violating Fair Housing laws by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
10-2863 Eva’s Bridal, Ltd., v. Halanick Enterprises, Inc.
Intellectual Property Trademarks; naked licensing Where the holder of a trademark exercised no control over the appearance and operations of a licensee’s business, the trademark is abandoned. “How much control is enough? The licensor’s self-interest largely determines the answer. Courts are apt to ask whether ‘the control retained by the licensor [is] sufficient under the […]
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