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Stories from the Week that Was – 11/27-12/3/11

04 Sunday Dec 2011

Posted by Kenan Farrell in Bloggers, Copyright, Entertainment Law, Intellectual Property, Legislation, Litigation, Patent, Privacy, Social Media, Stories from the Week that Was, Tech Developments, Trademark

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Brownback, lawrence lessig

Stories from the Week that Was – 11/27-12/3/11

USPTO releases 2011 Performance and Accountability Report

Researcher’s Video Shows Secret Software on Millions of Phones Logging Everything

US judge orders hundreds of sites “de-indexed” from Google, Facebook

Governor Brownback apologizes to Emma Sullivan over Twitter tiff

The Copyright Industry – A Century Of Deceit

Teen Tweeter Won’t Apologize To Kansas Governor

US Senate To Vote On Bill That Will Allow The Military To Arrest Americans On American Soil And Hold Them Indefinitely

“As we’ve seen, our constitutional system requires limits on copyright as a way to assure that copyright holders do not too heavily influence the development and distribution of our culture.” -Lawrence Lessig

Stories from the Week that Was – 11/13-11/19/11

20 Sunday Nov 2011

Posted by Kenan Farrell in Bloggers, Copyright, Entertainment Law, Intellectual Property, Legislation, Litigation, Musicians, Privacy, Social Media, Stories from the Week that Was, Tech Developments

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Intellectual Property, Righthaven, Social Media, Viacom

Stories from the Week that Was – 11/13-11/19/11

Press Russia on intellectual property: US lawmakers

Criminal Case Glut Impedes Civil Suits

Picking Brand Names in China Is a Business Itself

The Entrepreneurial Generation

The NLRB’s Obsession with Social Media Continues

Viacom so devastated by piracy that CEO gets $50 million raise

Woman decapitated after anti-crime blog, police say

Attorneys seek to auction Righthaven copyrights

Artists Sue CBS, CNET, for Promoting and Profiting from Piracy

SOPA and Protect IP: What Legal Nightmares Are Made of

Number of 90-plus people likely to quadruple by 2050

Are Digital Resale Markets Legal? Should They Be?

“Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.” -R. Buckminster Fuller

Stories from the Week that Was – 11/6-11/12/11

13 Sunday Nov 2011

Posted by Kenan Farrell in Entertainment Law, Litigation, Musicians, Nonprofit, Privacy, Social Media, Stories from the Week that Was, Tech Developments

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Facebook, Spotify

Stories from the Week that Was – 11/6-11/12/11

Don’t Believe Facebook, Spotify’s The Only Open Graph Music App Winning

Two-thirds support social networking blackout in future riots

Facebook nears settlement with FTC on privacy

Social Media Impact by Nonprofit Issues [Infographic]

Six-year project to tweet the Second World War

“If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.” – Frank Lloyd Wright

Stories from the Week that Was – 10/23-10/29/11

30 Sunday Oct 2011

Posted by Kenan Farrell in Copyright, Entertainment Law, Intellectual Property, Litigation, Privacy, Social Media, Stories from the Week that Was, Tech Developments

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Stories from the Week that Was – 10/23-10/29/11

How Recruiters Use Social Networks to Screen Candidates

Startup Funding by the Numbers [INFOGRAPHIC]

Piracy and Copyright Challenges in 1841 Mirror Those of Today

The Future Of Music Business Models (And Those Who Are Already There)

Tips for Defending Allegations of Domain Name and Trademark Cybersquatting

Long Island Couple files Trademark Application for Occupy Wall St.

US government requests for Google user data grow 29%

Law School Admissions Officers Are Googling Applicants and Checking Them Out on Facebook

“OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW.” – Steve Jobs final words, via A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs

Jimmy Buffett files trademark application for TIGER BLOOD

18 Friday Mar 2011

Posted by Kenan Farrell in Entertainment Law, Intellectual Property, Just for Fun, Trademark

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Tiger Blood, Trademark

Quick…everybody file a trademark application for TIGER BLOOD!

That’s the tune Jimmy Buffett is singing as he just filed an application to protect the trademark (which Charlie Sheen recently popularized) in connection with “Vodka” and “Energy Drinks”. But Jimmy isn’t the only one covering that tune as several others have also filed applications in the past few weeks.

Now the previous owner of TIGERS BLOOD (…it isn’t Charlie Sheen) faces a trademark onslaught of nearly epic proportion. Has a trademark ever had to survive the combined cumulative dilutive and tarnishing effects of Charlie Sheen, dietary supplements and now the boozy bard of Margaritaville, Jimmy Buffett? Which, if any, of the new trademark applications will survive to registration? And how long until Charlie Sheen himself files an application?

Here’s a review of the brief yet spectacular trademark history of TIGER BLOOD:

TIGERS BLOOD – Registered: June 3, 2008  Date of First Use: March 5, 2007

IC 032. Syrups for making soft drinks [Owner: Stuart K. McLaren]

TIGER’S BLOOD – Registered: August 31, 2010  Date of First Use: January 4, 2010

IC 034. Tobacco [Social Smoke, Inc]

TIGERBLOOD – Filed March 3, 2011  Date of First Use: March 2, 2011

IC 005. Dietary supplemental drinks, Meal replacement and dietary supplement drink mixes, Dietary supplemental drinks in the nature of vitamin and mineral beverages, Highly caffeinated energy pills

IC 025. Clothing, apparel, sneakers, athletic wear, t shirts. [Michael M. Heyward]

TIGER BLOOD – Filed March 6, 2011  Date of First Use: Intent to Use (ITU)

IC 005. Nutritional Supplements in liquid form and non-liquid form that relieve or prevent fatigue. Dietary Supplements in liquid form and non-liquid form that relieve or prevent fatigue [Crebit LLC]

TIGER BLOOD – Filed March 6, 2011  Date of First Use: ITU

IC 025. Clothing, Namely, Jackets, overcoats, sweaters, T-shirts, shirts, pants, caps, scarfs, belts, and shoes [Moneyworks, Inc.]

TIGER BLOOD – Filed March 7, 2011   Date of First Use: March 3, 2011

IC 005. Dietary and nutritional supplements; Dietary food supplements; Dietary supplemental drinks; Dietary supplements for human consumption; Liquid nutritional supplement. [Harcos, LLC]

TIGER BLOOD – Filed March 8, 2011  Date of First Use: ITU

IC 005. Dietary and nutritional supplements [Advanced Health Sciences, Inc.]

TIGERBLOOD – Filed March 8, 2011  Date of First Use: ITU

IC 032. Beauty beverages, namely, fruit juices and energy drinks containing nutritional supplements; Concentrates and powders used in the preparation of energy drinks and fruit-flavored beverages; Concentrates, syrups or powders used in the preparation of sports and energy drinks; Energy drinks; Non-alcoholic drinks, namely, energy shots; Sports drinks, namely, energy drinks [Michael J. Mueller, Jacquelyn A. Fritz AKA JJ Fritz, Pablo Cerrilla-Benet AKA Pablo Cerrilla, Waldo M. Abbot AKA Mack Abbot]

TIGER BLOOD – Filed March 10, 2011  Date of First Use: January 3, 2011

IC 025. Hooded sweat shirts; Short-sleeved or long-sleeved t-shirts. [Will Thompson]

TIGER BLOOD TV – Filed March 12, 2011  Date of First Use: March 4, 2011

IC 041. Providing a website for entertainment purposes where users can view and post audio, video, prose and images featuring content related to news, cultural events, pop-culture, arts, music, comedy and sports. [Kimberly A. Arnold, Joel M. Moore]

Never one to miss a beat, even Ol’ Parrothead himself is getting in on the Tiger Blood act. I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a new “Tiger Blood” single on the radio before the end of Spring Break.

TIGER BLOOD – Filed March 12, 2011  Date of First Use: ITU

IC 033. Vodka [Margaritaville Enterprises, LLC]

TIGER BLOOD – Filed March 12, 2011  Date of First Use: ITU

IC 032. Energy drinks [Margaritaville Enterprises, LLC]

It turns out that someone at Margaritaville Enterprises must get drunk on filing trademark applications…463 filed so far!

Are there additional TIGER BLOOD applications to come or is this the end of the trend? I know the trademark attorneys for the two registered marks will need to be vigilant in the upcoming weeks. I’ll keep you updated.

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