by Angela Langlotz | May 28, 2019 | Trademark Usage, Trademarks |
One of the biggest mistakes that I see in my practice is trademark applicants attempting to register descriptive names as trademarks. While it’s true that anything — including colors, scents, logos, words, and product designs — can serve as a trademark, we...
by Angela Langlotz | May 7, 2019 | Trademark Infringement, Trademark Usage, Trademarks |
My last video about LOL as a trademark prompted some questions about the availability of LOL as a trademark. Recall that Proctor & Gamble in applied to register the trademark LOL for a variety of cleaning products, including dish soap, hard surface cleaners, and...
by Angela Langlotz | Apr 30, 2019 | Trademark Registration, Trademark Usage, Trademarks |
WTF, LOL as a trademark??? Yes, you heard it here first: Personal and household care products behemoth Proctor & Gamble has applied for the exclusive right to use LOL on laundry detergents and fabric softeners, and on liquid soap, dishwashing detergent, hard...
by Angela Langlotz | Apr 23, 2019 | Logo marks, Trademark Usage, Trademarks |
Last weekend I was at a bar, and as so often happens, I looked around at the various brands around the room. I’m not a beer drinker, but I noticed something interesting that I thought would illustrate a point of trademark law. Check out the photo below. To you, that...
by Angela Langlotz | Apr 9, 2019 | Trademark Usage, Trademarks |
I was guitar shopping with a friend of mine last weekend at Emerald City Guitars, and found the inspiration for today’s trademark video. The guitars were much more interesting, for sure, and I have another inspiration for content from my visit, but today an amplifier...
by Angela Langlotz | Mar 26, 2019 | Design Marks, Logo marks, Trademark Infringement, Trademark Usage, Trademarks |
Recently Nike Inc. came under fire for trademark infringement for adopting as a clothing logo an emblem that is almost identical to that of the United States Naval Academy, owner of a trademark for that design. The United States Naval Academy owns trademark...
