Remember when France sued everyone who tried to sell sparkling wine as champagne, and won? Or when France made everyone start using ‘blue cheese’ instead of Roquefort?
Entries Tagged as 'Trademark'
The Roquefort Files
March 18th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Popular, Trademark
Tags:champagne·cheese·France·Hemingway·Roquefort·tariff·The Sun Also Rises·Trademark
Marketing Madness
March 9th, 2011 · 4 Comments · Arcana, Internet, Popular, Trademark
Turn on your television and, if you are one of the unfortunates who forgot to TiVo your favorite shows, you will be subjected to the most aggressive advertising in the history of mankind.
Tags:ad·advertisement·commercial·market·television·Trademark
Generically Yours
March 5th, 2011 · 11 Comments · Trademark
Do you know what genericide is? It’s when a once lofty brand name — a market leader — becomes so comfortable on the tongues of consumers that they start using it as a noun, and the mark itself loses its legal power to define the brand.
Trademarks Gone Wild
March 4th, 2011 · No Comments · Popular, Trademark
Former Girls Gone Wild media darling Joe Francis fell out of favor after an exposé in the Los Angeles Times, and things went downhill from there
Tags:anonymous·Girls Gone Mobile·Girls Gone Wild·Girls Gone Wine·Trademark
Trademark Whine
March 3rd, 2011 · 2 Comments · Popular, Trademark
More recently, the Kiwis sought revenge for the decades-old prohibition on use of the word “champagne” to describe any sparkling wine of non-Gallic origin
Tags:Girls Gone Wild·law·marketing·Raven·Trademark·vino·wine
Patented Balls
January 2nd, 2011 · 3 Comments · Patent, Popular, Trademark
Here’s a number for you: 1051. For you historically minded few, it is not the year that Britain was last invaded (1066), but rather the number of golf balls listed on the United States Golf Association’s List of Conforming Golf Balls.
Tags:Ben Hogan·Bobby Jones·golf·patent·Penfold Heart·Trademark
Hey, You Trademarked My Coffee!
December 24th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Popular, Trademark
But don’t fret. There’s no need to go all Häagen Dazs and inflict another umlaut-infected trademark on the world just yet. A two word mark buys you more chances of success
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