Apple Registers Startup Sound as a Trademark Apple recently filed a trademark application to protect their computers’ startup sound. The application was approved by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. (Click here to see Apple’s USPTO registration.) How can a sound be a “mark?”
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Can Camouflage be a Trademark?
December 13, 2012
Can Camouflage be a Trademark? Can a pattern designed to make you hide in plain sight function as a trademark?
GI BILL is Now a Registered Trademark
December 5, 2012
GI BILL is Now a Registered Trademark Is there anything worse than people who try to take unfair advantage of war veterans? If so, I don’t want to know about it. Unfortunately, some unscrupulous folks have been trying to do just that, and the U.S. Government has turned to trademark law to try to assist our nation’s heroes.
Best Coffee in America?
November 29, 2012
Best Coffee in America? Does Dunkin’ Donuts provide the Best Coffee in America? Maybe so, but the US Patent and Trademark Office has refused to allow them to register BEST COFFEE IN AMERICA as a trademark.When is a proposed trademark “merely laudatory,” and what the heck is “puffery?” Read on to find out.
