Trademarkology
Brands, Trademarks, and Registration
Trademarkology Salutes Fischer Packing Company
With Trademarkology declaring this to be "Pork Week," it's nostalgic for me to salute Fischer Packing Company, a 20th Century icon here in Louisville, Kentucky which is integrally a part of my family history. After...
Some Pig
Wilbur is not the only one with a claim to fame in the world of pork. The entire industry benefits from a mark found to be famous, a status accorded to only a very select...
Trois Petits Cochon Huffs and Puffs at Three Little Pigs Charcuterie & Salumi
Since my colleague Jack Wheat has designated the entire week as "pork week," I have been asked to write on a pig-related theme. Writing on this theme is not new to me - I previously...
Trademark Territoriality – Where You Use Your Mark Still Matters
How do you know where to register your trademark? Trademark rights have been traditionally tied to geography. In the U.S. and in many other countries, a trademark owner only has rights in a mark to...
Restaurateurs Squeal When Ramsay Registers "THE SPOTTED PIG"
Restauranteurs wanted to hogtie Gordon Ramsay when they found out he'd applied to register the mark THE SPOTTED PIG in the United Kingdom.On October 2, 2012, Ramsay, a famous British television chef, applied to register...
It's Pork Week!
According to multiple sources such as www.national-awareness-days.com and Wikipedia, March 1 each year is designated as "National Pig Day." We suspect it is not coincidental that this week, from March 3rd throught the 6th, the...
Bob Marley's Heirs Jammin' With a Win at the Ninth Circuit
Bob Marley's heirs got up, stood up, stood up for their rights. They didn't give up the fight and last week were sucessful in their claim under Section 43(a) of the Trademark Act before the...
Mustaches and Trademarks.
Someone somewhere has declared that today, February 24, 2015, is NATIONAL MUSTACHE DAY. Who would have thought. There must be a day for just about anything of interest to any subset of society.And for some...