There are times when someone decides to go ahead and try to use a trademark that is already in existence and gets sued for trademark infringement. No one knows this better than Robert Webb of Webb & D'Orazio in Atlanta, Georgia.READ»
When I buy coffee beans from my local Starbucks, Ethiopian Sidamo wins hands down every time. But where does my brand loyalty lie? With Starbucks? Or with Sidamo?
This week Ethiopian prime minister Meles Zenawi and Starbucks CEO Jim ...READ»
Plinking
\'plin-kin\ n 1 : The act of embedding a product or service link in a video. Though the basic technology has been deployed before, the term itself was coined (and trademarked) by Entertainment Media Works, a ...READ»
Sony [NYSE: SNE] has produced a little video detailing some of the features of its upcoming "Alicia" Walkman phone, and the interface looks to benefit from a whole littany of inputs. For starters, the Alicia is a flip phone ...READ»
The Aveda Corp., which I usually view as an upstanding member of the corporate community, has seemingly trademarked the word "indigenous" for their purifying collection.
In a message to the Nettime mailing list, Felix Stalder ...READ»
This handcrafted sheepskin gumboot is also the home of EMU Australia, one of the highest rank Australian ugg wader manufacturers. It former and decades later it broken up in the hands of US guests Deckers Outdoor Corporation, along ...READ»
If TiVo has its way, it won't go the way of Xerox, Kleenex, and Google. According to The New York Times, at least, TiVo is beginning to aggressively defend its trademark, fighting those who try to make it a verb (to TiVo: To record ...READ»
