Hershey Co. recently sued convicted trafficer Kenneth Affolter for selling pot-laced treats and soft drinks with the names Stoney Rancher, Rasta Reese's and Keef Kat. Bummer dude.
UPDATE 5/23: Stoners unite to boycott Hershey.
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Showing posts with label fun. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Friday, April 20, 2007
Friday Rush - Train Speed Record
Not trademark or branding related, but what a rush. Watch as Alstom, the French Rail Network and SNCF break the world rail speed record by attaining the speed of 574.8 km/hr (that's 357.16 miles per hour for us Americans). Interesting that the record speed had to be officially ratified by two lawyers!
Technorati Tags: train, world rail speed record, France
Technorati Tags: train, world rail speed record, France
Friday, April 13, 2007
The Sanjaya Brand Association Map
Related to my Sanjaya trademark post, now comes the Sanjaya Brand Association Map from Nielsen BuzzMetrics. Here's a discussion over at the Consumer Generated Media blog.
Technorati Tags: branding, trademark, Sanjaya, fun
Technorati Tags: branding, trademark, Sanjaya, fun
Thursday, April 12, 2007
What is Electix?
What is Electix? That's what the site electix.net asks. The site will reveal what electix is on July 21, 2007. In the meantime, it conducting a contest to win 1 in 20 of the main product or service which 'electix' will offer visitors.
Okay, I'll take a stab. I searched the USPTO, WIPO, EU, and UK trademark databases, but did not come up with one hit on the exact search for ELECTIX. So moving on, I checked out the whois record. The Registrant Contact info is Firebath Music and Mark Newby or Manchester, Great Britain. So maybe the company has something to do with the concert and event ticket business, hence the "tix" at the end. But alas, maybe I'm wrong because advert-eyes says that the site was created by advertising agency Firebath Creations whose studio manager is Mark Newby. But, also advert-eyes says that Firebath's client is Garcon Limited. As does electix's privacy page.
So just who is Garcon Limited? It appears it was created on February 21, 2006 with an address in Leeds, West Yorkshire. Or is it Le Garcon Limited? This is pretty much a dead end, since I don't want to pay for corporate documents for a little fun investigation.
Turning back to electix, I googled it (um, sorry, I performed an internet search for the term electix using the Google search engine). Looks like a test forum with the title electix was created on March 21, 2007. There's a manufacturing company from Connecticut by the name Electix, Inc. It's most likely not the right one. It's a band from the UK. It's also the name of a Pakistani company. But, at least potentially troubling for Garcon, it's the name and trademark of a site claiming to be "The Ultimate Gadget Site" from The Netherlands.
It appears Electix has done a good job in hiding what they aim to be. So I guess, your guess is as good as mine.
Okay, I'll take a stab. I searched the USPTO, WIPO, EU, and UK trademark databases, but did not come up with one hit on the exact search for ELECTIX. So moving on, I checked out the whois record. The Registrant Contact info is Firebath Music and Mark Newby or Manchester, Great Britain. So maybe the company has something to do with the concert and event ticket business, hence the "tix" at the end. But alas, maybe I'm wrong because advert-eyes says that the site was created by advertising agency Firebath Creations whose studio manager is Mark Newby. But, also advert-eyes says that Firebath's client is Garcon Limited. As does electix's privacy page.
So just who is Garcon Limited? It appears it was created on February 21, 2006 with an address in Leeds, West Yorkshire. Or is it Le Garcon Limited? This is pretty much a dead end, since I don't want to pay for corporate documents for a little fun investigation.
Turning back to electix, I googled it (um, sorry, I performed an internet search for the term electix using the Google search engine). Looks like a test forum with the title electix was created on March 21, 2007. There's a manufacturing company from Connecticut by the name Electix, Inc. It's most likely not the right one. It's a band from the UK. It's also the name of a Pakistani company. But, at least potentially troubling for Garcon, it's the name and trademark of a site claiming to be "The Ultimate Gadget Site" from The Netherlands.
It appears Electix has done a good job in hiding what they aim to be. So I guess, your guess is as good as mine.
No Sanjaya trademarks ... yet
I'm voting for Sanjaya! Are you? Seriously, I suspect that it's only a matter of time that we see a trademark application for SANJAYA.
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Happy Ernst and Young day
I'm thinking that the folks over at Ernst & Young did not think of the negative branding effect (also here, here, and here) of what appears to be an E&Y recruitment video.
Technorati Tags: branding, Ernst & Young, recruitment video, oh happy day, gag
Technorati Tags: branding, Ernst & Young, recruitment video, oh happy day, gag
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
What the Duck - Copywrong
What the Duck is my new favorite cartoon. The author even allows reproducing the strip on blogs: "What the Duck is an online comic strip. Viewers are welcome to link, post, copy/paste, or save the strips to their own sites, blogs, forums, newsletters, etc."
HT: PhotoAttorney
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Blawg Bracket
Inspired by the Brand Autopsy's Marketing Bloggers Bracketology post, I decided to put up a bracket for blawgs, i.e. legal blogs. This is for entertainment purposes only, so please, no betting.
Anyways, the blogs that I included are those that I'm aware of, or of blogs that were linked to from other blogs. Of course, I'm certain that I've excluded some very fine law blogs, and to those blogs I apologize.
I determined ranking by way of the number of links each blog has on Google. For example, the number one ranked blog, The Volokh Conspiracy, has 39,800 links to it. Enjoy.
UPDATE: By the way, I purposely left out TMBC, which would have been a 16 seed in the East with 144 hits. If that were the case, I'm sure I would have been thoroughly trounced by Professor Bainbridge.
Anyways, the blogs that I included are those that I'm aware of, or of blogs that were linked to from other blogs. Of course, I'm certain that I've excluded some very fine law blogs, and to those blogs I apologize.
I determined ranking by way of the number of links each blog has on Google. For example, the number one ranked blog, The Volokh Conspiracy, has 39,800 links to it. Enjoy.
UPDATE: By the way, I purposely left out TMBC, which would have been a 16 seed in the East with 144 hits. If that were the case, I'm sure I would have been thoroughly trounced by Professor Bainbridge.
Blawg Hits Seed
The Volokh Conspiracy 39800 1M
lessig blog 26400 1W
Professor Bainbridge 19700 1E
Balkinization 14500 1S
Over Lawyered 11800 2M
Scotus blog 11300 2W
Freedom to Tinker 10400 2E
PrawfsBlawg 8140 2S
Bag and Baggage 7710 3M
Ernie the Attorney 7440 3W
Point of Law 7030 3E
Concurring Opinions 7010 3S
WSJ.com Law Blog 6720 4M
Be Spacific 6240 4W
Copyfight 5520 4E
LawMeme 5090 4S
JURIST - Paper Chase 4770 5M
Dennis Kennedy 4680 5W
Susan Crawford blog 4650 5E
The Patry Copyright Blog 4000 5S
Above the Law 3720 6M
Adam Smith, Esq. 3610 6W
Blawg Review 3430 6E
The Legal Reader 3410 6S
The Trademark Blog 3400 7M
Sports Law Blog 3370 7W
Patently O 3130 7E
May it Please the Court 3100 7S
Appellate Law & Practice 2620 8M
Silicon Valley Media Law Blog 2370 8W
Arbitrary and Capricious 2290 8E
PHOSITA 2160 8S
bIPlog at boalt.org 2020 9S
I/P Updates 1970 9E
Technology & Marketing Law Blog 1840 9W
GrepLaw 1830 9M
Law Pundit 1790 10S
IPKat 1720 10E
Likelihood of Confusion 1520 10W
The Barrister Blog 1410 10M
f/k/a … 1300 11S
InHouse Blog 1290 11E
Internet Cases 1150 11W
Consensus at Lawyerpoint 1100 11M
Info/Law 983 12S
Counterfeit Chic 850 12E
Florida Intellectual Property Law Blog 800 12W
The Invent Blog 784 12M
271 Patent Blog 748 13S
The TTABlog 663 13E
43(B)log 626 13W
Mass Law Blog 325 13M
Have Opinion, Will Travel 320 14S
Academic Copyright 301 14E
The Becker-Posner Blog 234 14W
Guiding Rights Blog 223 14M
Erik J. Heels 184 15S
Now, Why Didn't I Think of That? 181 15E
Inside the Firm of the Future 175 15W
Human Law 160 15M
Photo Attorney 148 16S
Canadian Trademark Blog 129 16E
ICANN Watch 82 16W
Seattle Trademark Lawyer 74 16M
Likely to be Confused 41 Bubble
Legal Fixation 36 Bubble
Cobalt 32 Bubble
Patry Treatise Blog 23 Bubble
Golf Patents 22 Bubble
Bridging the Gap 0 Bubble
Monday, March 26, 2007
Birkhead trademark application
Trademark news from the Anna Nicole Smith front. Larry Birkhead has applied to register the trademark GOODNIGHT MY SWEET ANNA BABY for "movies, books, television programs, programs broadcast over the Interent, programs broadcast over electronic media; stage plays." Birkhead used this line at Anna Nicole's funeral service.
PTO search shows no applications yet filed from Virgie Arthur, Howard K. Stern, Larry Seidlin, or Frederic von Anhalt.
PTO search shows no applications yet filed from Virgie Arthur, Howard K. Stern, Larry Seidlin, or Frederic von Anhalt.
Friday, March 9, 2007
Taste Infringement
Coke vs. Coke Zero. This is a great site from Coke Zero wherein the Coke team asks some unsuspecting lawyers if they can sue the Coke Zero team for taste infringement.
Tuesday, March 6, 2007
Amusing trademark of the day
ROCKING HORSE TURDS in Class 028 for "toys in the form of blocks of wood whimsically suggesting they are droppings from a wooden rocking horse."
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Trademark Numbers
Just some trademark searches of interest.
As of today, at 1:40 E.S.T.
Number of total "live" registrations: 1,341,391 {live[ld] and `rn > "0"}
Number of total "live" registrations on the principal register (including 2(f) and 2(f)-in-part registrations): 1,288,461 {live[ld] and `rn > "0" and (principal[rg] or principal-2[rg] or part[rg])}
Number of total "live" registrations on the supplemental register: 52,930 {live[ld] and `rn > "0" and supplemental[rg]}
Is your mark registered yet?
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As of today, at 1:40 E.S.T.
Number of total "live" registrations: 1,341,391 {live[ld] and `rn > "0"}
Number of total "live" registrations on the principal register (including 2(f) and 2(f)-in-part registrations): 1,288,461 {live[ld] and `rn > "0" and (principal[rg] or principal-2[rg] or part[rg])}
Number of total "live" registrations on the supplemental register: 52,930 {live[ld] and `rn > "0" and supplemental[rg]}
Is your mark registered yet?
Technorati Tags: trademark, registration, trademark registration, search, fun
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Colbert on AT&T
Funny clip from the Colbert Report on the rebranding of Cingular to AT&T. Hat tip to Cultural Branding.
Technorati Tags: branding, anti-trust, fun, re-branding, Colbert Report, AT&T, Cingular
Technorati Tags: branding, anti-trust, fun, re-branding, Colbert Report, AT&T, Cingular
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Oh Snap! That's Pretty Cool
New to the TMBC is the Snap Preview Anywhere. It's a pretty cool tool. When you roll over a link, you'll see a preview window of the outgoing site.
Technorati Tags: snap, snap preview anywhere, cool tool
Technorati Tags: snap, snap preview anywhere, cool tool
Monday, January 15, 2007
Good For You ... you're number 1
Drum roll please. The very first trademark application for 2007 is for the mark G.F.I. GOOD FOR YOU for the following goods and services:
IC 025. US 022 039. G & S: Camp shirts; Dress shirts; Golf shirts; Knit shirts; Night shirts; Open-necked shirts; Pique shirts; Polo shirts; Shirt fronts; Shirt yokes; Shirts; Short-sleeved or long-sleeved t-shirts; Short-sleeved shirts; Sleep shirts; Sport shirts; Sports shirts; Sports shirts with short sleeves; Sweat shirts; T-shirts; Wind shirts. FIRST USE: 20060401. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 20060401
And what time was the application filed? 12:06:13 a.m.
That's mighty early on a day the applicant's attorney should have been partying. However, there's probably some sort of badge of honor to be the first applicant of a new year.
Technorati Tags: trademark, trademark application, fun fact, 2007, first, first tm application of the new year, good for you
Saturday, January 6, 2007
The Name Game - tmbc style
Anantha over at Brandnama has a nice post re: naming the first brand you can think of for each letter of the alphabet. So here goes my attempt:
Apple
Bic
Cunard
Dell
Entenmann's
Frank Gates
Go Daddy
Heineken
IBM
Jantzen
Kellog
Linux
Minute Maid
Novell
Overstock.com
People Magazine
Qubo
Rice-a-Roni
Samsonite
Tim Hortons
Unilever
Valvoline
Wolverines (as in the University of Michigan Wolverines)
Xerox
Yatzee
Zillow.com
Y stumped me for a while. I don't know why I didn't choose Yahoo!
Update: Q also stumped me. The first thing I could think of was Qube, which for folks living in Columbus Ohio, was a Time Warner experiment for an interactive cable system. Since it no longer exists, I decided not to list it. What I finally thought of is Qubo. My daughter watches the channel on Saturday mornings. And talks about it alot. That's why I thought of it.
Technorati Tags: branding, name game, naming, brands, alphabet
Apple
Bic
Cunard
Dell
Entenmann's
Frank Gates
Go Daddy
Heineken
IBM
Jantzen
Kellog
Linux
Minute Maid
Novell
Overstock.com
People Magazine
Qubo
Rice-a-Roni
Samsonite
Tim Hortons
Unilever
Valvoline
Wolverines (as in the University of Michigan Wolverines)
Xerox
Yatzee
Zillow.com
Y stumped me for a while. I don't know why I didn't choose Yahoo!
Update: Q also stumped me. The first thing I could think of was Qube, which for folks living in Columbus Ohio, was a Time Warner experiment for an interactive cable system. Since it no longer exists, I decided not to list it. What I finally thought of is Qubo. My daughter watches the channel on Saturday mornings. And talks about it alot. That's why I thought of it.
Technorati Tags: branding, name game, naming, brands, alphabet
