This Bo might not have won the Heisman Trophy, he might not have played in the NFL or MLB, he might not have enjoyed a lucrative Nike endorsement deal, and he might not have been named ESPN’s greatest athlete of all time, but this Bo — the defiant Vermonter, a/k/a
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A Hot Trademark, Cooling Off?
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Posted in Advertising, Branding, Food, Genericide, Guest Bloggers, Infringement, Marketing, Mixed Bag of Nuts, Product Packaging, Trademarks, USPTO
– Draeke Weseman, Weseman Law Office, PLLC
Recently, Steve wrote a piece about the branding at a Saint Paul Vietnamese restaurant named iPho. Pho is a popular, traditional Vietnamese street food – a simple soup made by combining rice noodles and meat in a large bowl filled with aromatic broth. One of the most…
GoldieBlox and the Beastie Boys: Someone’s Been Using My Song
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Growing up in the ’80s, I have fond memories of music, TV shows, and toys from that era, like Transformers, Michael Jackson, Reading Rainbow with LeVar Burton, My Buddy & Kid Sister, Glow Worms, hair bands, He-Man, Square One, and rap music from acts like the Beastie…
Kickstarting Your Trademark Portfolio
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Posted in Articles, Branding, Guest Bloggers, Infringement, Law Suits, Marketing, Technology, Trademarks, USPTO
— Draeke H. Weseman, Weseman Law Office, PLLC
68,929 Backers. $10,266,845 Pledged. 10,266% Funded.
The stat line above describes “Pebble,” a project to build blue-tooth enabled watches with e-paper screens that display information from synchronized mobile phones. The project is the highest funded project in the history of Kickstarter, a crowd-funding platform started in …