— Karen Brennan, Attorney
Unbelievably, the MTV show Jersey Shore has presented even more material to blog about (see Sharon Armstrong’s previous blog Trademark Lessons from Jersey Shore here).
Jersey Shore cast member Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi is attempting to federally register her nickname “Snooki” as a trademark for books. Unfortunately, the United States Patent
— Karen Brennan, Attorney
Coming soon, to a theatre near you: Facebook, the movie, where social networking takes over the world.
The film, which is actually titled The Social Network, tells the story of the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, now the youngest billionaire in history, and the enemies he made along
— Karen Brennan, Attorney
I finally made it to a Minnesota Twins game to personally witness the mania surrounding Target Field. While I am not a huge baseball fan, I have to admit it was pretty great. One thing that grabbed my attention was the large, vintage-looking Twins sign in center field:
The “Shaking
— Karen Brennan, Attorney
The Tavern on the Green dispute came to a swift end, for the time being. U.S. District Court Judge Miriam Cedarbaum granted summary judgment in favor of the City of New York, ordering cancellation of LeRoy’s federal trademark registration for the TAVERN ON THE GREEN mark in connection with restaurant services
— Karen Brennan, Attorney
The recent success of the Twilight books and movies has definitely sparked worldwide interest in vampires. I am only slightly embarrassed to admit that I am on Team Edward, along with my 10-year-old niece.
With Twilight’s popularity, it didn’t take long for other vampire-based books, television shows and movies to
— Karen Brennan, Attorney
Burger King’s latest commercial presents a new approach to advertising in the burger wars – honesty; admitting they “stole” McDonald’s breakfast sandwich idea. In the commercial, the creepy-looking King scales a fence and breaks into McDonald’s headquarters in the middle of the night to steal the recipe for the Sausage McMuffin
— Karen Brennan, Attorney
While watching the Academy Awards on Sunday night, the winner of the Animated Short Films category definitely caught my attention. The winner was Logorama – a 16-minute French anumation created around the use of 3,000 well-known trademarks.
The plot is described as a police chase through Los Angeles which includes a
— Karen Brennan, Attorney
Shaun White recently won gold in Vancouver in the halfpipe with a near-perfect score. At 23, this already his second Olympic games and his second gold metal in this event. Since 2002, he has also won 9 gold, 3 silver, 2 bronze medals in the X Games. Anyone who saw
— Karen Brennan, Attorney
In light of the recent Super Bowl victory by the New Orleans Saints, I think a brief discussion of the recent squabble over ownership of the phrase “who dat” is in order.
In case you have not been following the story, the phrase “who dat” is commonly used by football