Fifty years ago, a graphic artist named Harvey Ros... ...ther Ball nor his company sought a copyright or a trademark .In the early 1970s, brothers Bernard and Murray S... ...ws in the newspaper France Soir. Subsequently, he trademarked the smile, dubbed simply “Smiley,” in... ...but when Loufrani'...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/03/14/Who-Really-Invented-the-Smiley-Face/
Imagine that you spent time and money developing a brand and an advertising icon and someone else just decided they'd use your idea, too. You'd probably take them to court! There are gray areas in copyright, though. How...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/06/15/how-aunt-jemima-changed-u-s-trademark-law/
Way back when, parents used to n... ...hey filed an application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to protect their daughter̵... ...me parents found the whole thing downright crazy. Trademarking a baby name -- only in tinsel town, r...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/05/17/the-complicated-world-of-modern-baby-naming/
You may not be aware of the battle that is brewing... ...ackaging for Colgate toothpaste does not infringe trademarks held by Glaxo, which had filed a trademark application for the nurdle design.Glaxo loves the...
http://www.neatorama.com/2010/08/21/battle-of-the-nurdles/
The next time you open a bottle of beer, don't j... ...(L) Bass & Co's Pale Ale, the very first trademark registered in the UK (1876) at the Inte... ...tty darned special: it's the very first trademark registered in Britain. When trademark registration...
http://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/24/stories-behind-7-famous-beer-logos/
Jeremy Gutsche, the founder of Trend Hunter blog,... ...he came up with a brilliant solution: he filed a trademark violation ... against himself!So, I personally sq... ...Page to be /trendhunter?This week I noticed that trademark owners could file trademark violation report...
http://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/14/trend-hunter-founder-filed-trademark-violation-against-himself/
Remember the kerfuffle when Re/Max tried to block... ...mber the kerfuffle when Re/Max tried to block the trademark registration of rival real estate company Rehava?... ...), whose lawyers are pursuing the "Pod" trademarks :What's in a name? A rose by any other name would... ...ay, Sector Labs, a sm...
http://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/24/apple-all-your-pods-belong-to-us/
Do the two logos look similar to you? They do, acc... ...os look similar to you? They do, according to the trademark attorneys of Re/Max, a national real estate franc... ...al real estate franchise. They're challenging the trademark application of a real estate startup Rehava, whic... ...er-in-charge, said he...
http://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/10/logo-fight-remax-vs-rehava/
