“If you sell sandwiches that happen to be, oh, 12 inches long, and you dare to refer to said sandwiches as being a ‘footlong,’ then Subway would like to have a word with you.” [Bruce Carton, Legal Blog Watch; cease and desist letter, PDF, via NPR]
Posts Tagged ‘trademarks’
Princess-Di-as-trademark case
If you want to get justice against a bad lawsuit, notes Ron Coleman, you might need to own a Mint.
Suing critics, competitors not a winning business strategy
Or at least it wasn’t for one video firm [Paul Alan Levy, Consumer Law and Policy]
“Collaboration not Litigation Ale”
Two craft brewers “found themselves on the brink of a product name dispute. Rather than calling in the lawyers, however, they drew upon their brewing talents to concoct a unique solution.” [95 Years]
Criminal liability for aiding and abetting IP infringement?
Andrew Moshirnia wonders whether an EU scheme might wind up kind of outlawing the Internet. [Citizen Media Law]
Trademark recursion?
Citizens United menaces “Citizens United against Citizens United” [David Post, Volokh]
“Gripe site prevails in domain cybersquatting case”
“A gripe site that incorporates a company’s entire trademark into its domain is still protected under the First Amendment, a US District Judge has ruled.” The site was posted by a disgruntled customer of the Career Agents Network. [Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica]
March 9 roundup
- From attorney Bob Ambrogi, on Twitter: “This felt wrong: Shortly after heated call with lawyer saying he’d sue my client, he sent me invite to connect on LinkedIn.” Related: Amy Alkon.
- “Spot the lawsuit in this commercial” [Louis Vuitton vs. Hyundai; Trademark Blog]
- Video: “Community swimming pool closes due to lawsuit” [Hazleton, Pa.; U.S. Chamber Faces of Lawsuit Abuse series; plaintiff’s side of things]
- Recycling, found materials, and why so much “green building” won’t last [Sippican Cottage and followup]
- German ban on homeschooling not a compelling reason to grant asylum to affected family [Krikorian, NRO, Volokh]
- Ted’s Center for Class Action Fairness files objections to a Costco fuel class settlement; related reflections from the judge in the recent Honda case;
- “Photographing Public Art: A Legal Waltz in Seattle” [Citizen Media Law, earlier]
- “Big Bankruptcies’ Big Fees Raising Questions” [Asarco, Station Casinos; Baxter, AmLaw Daily]
Lawyer-unsafe short film of the year
Logorama is an Oscar-nominated 16-minute film with R-rated language and situations and as many as 2,500 possible intellectual property violations. [GarageTV, Belgian, via Nancy Friedman, who calls it “startling and hilarious”.]
Tweet ye not
Agency Spy: “Brands Scolded for Tweeting About Olympics”