— 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
There is a new bank in town, or at least new billboard advertising for a bank I haven’t noticed before now — by the way, I like the color scheme. The logo reminded me of another, at least from a distance, albeit for different services.
Putting that issue aside, there are a couple
—Dave Taylor, Taylor Brand Group
Think of your favorite brands of clothing, beverages, restaurants, or insurance–any product or service you like and purchase. You could probably name two brands or more in every category in addition to competitive brands that you’ve chosen not to buy, or haven’t bothered to try. Take a little bit of
–Dan Kelly, Attorney
Continuing on my previous comments that the entity(-ies) responsible for the Droid phone (i.e. Verizorolagoogasfilm, or whatever the consortium of Verizon, Motorola, Google, and Lucasfilm is going by these days) are not necessarily following the “don’t be evil” motto, the billboard below, found along a very busy interstate, strikes me as poorly
–Dan Kelly, Attorney
As Steve has noted, I find it amusing that the Droid phone from Verizon licenses DROID from Lucasfilm Ltd. To my mind, the Droid “eye” theme is a poor imitation of another famous fantasy character: the Eye of Sauron, from Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy. When I see
Who is responsible for this billboard ad? Is it a Google advertisement? Verizon? Motorola? Droid?
Whatever the answer, it helps make the point visually that trademarks require protection beyond mere confusion as to source; basically, the same point we made a while back (in response to Seth Godin’s trademark position and then during a friendly sparring match with Ron Coleman), as we discussed