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Dilbert Advocates Trademark Shape Depletion Theory

By Steve Baird® on October 20, 2011
Posted in Non-Traditional Trademarks, Product Configurations, Trademarks

Remember the days when the color depletion theory justified courts and the U.S. Trademark Office in denying any federal trademark protection for single colors, per se?

This was the status of the trademark law for many decades, at least until the Court of the Appeals for the Federal Circuit disagreed in 1985 (In re Owens Corning …

News Flash: Dilbert on “Trademark Infringement Lawyers”

By Steve Baird® on September 10, 2009
Posted in Infringement, Law Suits, Squirrelly Thoughts, Trademarks

Clients and friends have enjoyed passing yesterday’s Dilbert cartoon on to me, just for fun (I think).

So, for those of you who weren’t sure we could take not only a lawyer joke, but a “trademark infringement lawyer” joke, read on:

Having said that, I think we already demonstrated our ability to self-deprecate with the…

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