Thank goodness for Monster Cable. No, really. I mean, every cause needs a poster child, right? And the poster child for the excess of ownership in this country is, without a doubt, Monster Cable, which has sued everyone from a blue jeans maker to a mini-golf operator to the Boston Red Sox and their attempts [...]
If you work in any sort of media at all (or you’re a small winery in the Olympic peninsula), you’re well aware that the Olympics Committees of the world are unbelievably rabid enforcers of trademarks related to the Games. But now, “trademarks related to the Games” is starting to include national anthems, numbers, and common [...]
Everyone’s atwitter (no, literally, I saw it from like three people on Twitter) about the absolutely fabulous response from Kurt Denke, president of Blue Jeans Cable, to a cease-and-desist order from legendarily litigious Monster Cable. I urge you to read it in its entirety, as the writing, the sheer scope of his demands, and the [...]
This story right here is what I like to call “blogging gold.” Only a week or so after I became aware that Deutsche Telekom had not only trademarked the color magenta, but was also actively bigfooting companies that had the temerity to put magenta in their logos, DT has gone after Engadget Mobile. (Thanks to [...]
… should it really be magenta? Thanks to Philip for tipping me off to the fact that Deutsche Telekom has evidently claimed trademark rights to the color magenta, and is, in fact, attempting to force a Dutch firm called Compello to change its corporate logo due to the color infringement.
And in a sign that the [...]
If there’s anything that could undermine my sympathy for the Scrabulous guys, it’s the looming possibility of their own greed. Hasbro and Mattel came off like the bad guys when they went after the makers of Scrabulous, the little Facebook app that could, and demanded that the Indian brothers who created the game shut the [...]