Apparently has led to the creation of a new blog entitled Trademark Bully — Kindly Back Off!
The TrademarkBully.com domain was registered just days ago, by someone who has shielded their identity (doesn’t real blogging require transparency?) and it resolves to a WordPress Blog, with a couple of initial posts from yesterday.
It also reveals
INTA has decided to release its January 4, 2011 submission to the USPTO on the “trademark bullying” topic, link to pdf here. It also can be downloaded from INTA’s website here.
So, what do you think?
You may be interested to know that the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) did file a timely response on January 7, 2011, to the USPTO’s original request for comments regarding whether “trademark bullying” is a significant problem deserving attention, see here.
Hat tip to Jackie.
Let’s just say, it
It appears the USPTO, once again, has extended the period for submitting comments on what originally was termed a study regarding “trademark bullying,” but was later characterized as a study on “aggressive trademark litigation tactics” — so, for those of you still interested in submitting comments, the new deadline is February 14, 2011.
Apparently, the
–Susan Perera, Attorney
Dusting off the archives, you may remember a 2009 blog post by Tiffany about a trademark infringement lawsuit initiated by Levi Strauss against Abercrombie & Fitch over the back pocket design on the respective parties’ jeans.
In that case the jury determined that the pocket designs, shown below, were not confusingly similar;
—Aaron Keller, Managing Principal, Capsule
Both a modern and a historical crime unintentionally depicted on the one belt buckle.
You’ve heard of the Jesse James gang, immortalized by their crimes and ability to epitomize the culture of our great western states.
One day, back when the James brothers were in the business of
Last week we announced a trademark seminar taking place in Minneapolis on March 2, 2011, and one of the hot topics to be discussed from 1:15 – 2:30 PM CST, is “Strategies For Dealing With “Trademark Bullies.”
Given the special interest in the trademark bullying topic outside and well beyond the Twin Cities, Minnesota Continuing
Who says that being a large corporate trademark owner is one of the prerequisites to earning the emotionally-charged, pejorative, and ill-defined label “trademark bully“?
Well, the original directive to the USPTO appears to assume that “trademark bullying” is a one-way street, disfavoring only large corporate trademark owners, and ignoring the possibility
On Wednesday March 2, 2011, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, at 1:15 PM CST, we’ll be discussing “Strategies for Dealing With “Trademark Bullies” — a pdf of the brochure is here.
I’ll be moderating a 75 minute panel discussion with these distinguished speakers:
Last October, as you may recall, I wrote this in a post entitled “The Mark of a Real Trademark Bully“:
[T]he U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is currently seeking information about various litigation tactics, including whether “you think trademark “bullies” are currently a problem for trademark owners, and if so, how