It’s been a while . . . about seven months now.
As you’ll see, a few things have happened since April, when we last left you with these gems on the topic of trademark bullying: Stop Bullying the Entrepreneurs, What does Entrepreneur Mean, Anyway?, and Public Shaming is Not the Solution to Trademark
As we look forward to experiencing, enjoying, accomplishing, and sharing great things together in 2015, I wanted to reflect for a moment on how we got here, and give some hearty thanks to — and remind our readers of — four talented DuetsBlog alumni who helped pave the way:
–Dan Kelly, Attorney
After a nearly four-year run, I am hanging up my keyboard as a regular contributor to DuetsBlog. I have accepted new employment, so I am bidding bon voyage to Winthrop & Weinstine, and with it, my regular writing here. In my blogging career here, I have written some 140 posts on a
–Dan Kelly, Attorney
Most have probably heard today’s news that Hostess Brands is going out of business. This is sad news on many fronts, the most significant of which is the loss of livelihood for some 18,000 individuals.
Hostess Brands owns a number of well-known, if not famous, trademarks and brands, including TWINKIES for cakes,
–Dan Kelly, Attorney
Long time DuetsBlog readers may recall the lawsuit between Spin Master and Zobmondo regarding infringement of the “Would You Rather…?” trademark. Prior DuetsBlog coverage is here and here. The jury is in, literally, and unanimously found that the Would You Rather…? trademark is protectable and that Zobmondo infringed it to the
–Dan Kelly, Attorney
The U.S. Navy seems to have cleared all necessary hurdles to register the camouflage pattern to the right as a trademark for use in connection with uniforms and fabrics. Among the many hurdles that the Navy cleared, one is a refusal on the basis of “ornamentation,” or failure of the proposed design
–Dan Kelly, Attorney
A couple of weeks ago, Forrester Research issued a report called “The Purchase Path of Online Buyers in 2012.” The report has a great deal of interesting information, two pieces of which underscore points I have hammered here for a while. First, the report notes that “[d]irect traffic is critical to sales:”
–Dan Kelly, Attorney
Meet my trusty GE Electronic Digital FM/AM Clock Radio, Model No. 7-4624:
I don’t know if I can pinpoint it exactly, but this puppy has been with me for somewhere along the lines of twenty-eight years. It has been with me through junior high, high school, college, teaching, law school, lawyerdom, marriage,
–Dan Kelly, Attorney
A long time ago, I heard an anecdote in which one person asked another, “Why can’t we just mandate that air travel be 99.9% safe?” The response: “If air travel were only 99.9% safe, there would be three accidents a day at O’Hare alone.”
I thought of this anecdote a few days
–Dan Kelly, Attorney
Over the years, we have documented a number of branding trends, from blue ovals, to the 3D trend, to our AlphaWatch. With its recently announced new logo, Microsoft appears to be bucking all trends. Without further ado, here it is:
Did you catch that? I know. Blink and you