Amazon Brand Registry – blog post_FINAL

Amazon Brand Registry – blog post_FINAL

Amazon is taking over the world, but that’s no surprise to retailers.  Amazon knows that to entice sellers to list their products and to ensure buyers the goods they’re seeing are legitimate, it needs to control the problem of counterfeit goods. The...
SUCKS: Extortion or Free Speech?

SUCKS: Extortion or Free Speech?

TAGS: sucks, domain, name, registrar, ICANN, website, TLD, top level domain, Vox, Populi, sunrise, period, priority, operate, trademarks, contract, controversy, sale, price, premium, lock up, open, market, predatory scheme, pricing, coercive, extortion,...
Bayer’s Foreign Mark No Match for Trademark Territoriality

Bayer’s Foreign Mark No Match for Trademark Territoriality

TAGS: trademark, territoriality, Bayer, Belmora, Flanax, Mexico, registration, first use, international, foreign, Madrid Protocol, famous mark, infringement, Lanham Act, TTAB, goodwill, reputation, misrepresentation, source. In the U.S., trademarks rights first arise...