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Droid: An “Eye” Phone?
–Dan Kelly, Attorney As Steve has noted, I find it amusing that the Droid phone from Verizon licenses DROID from Lucasfilm Ltd. To my mind, the Droid “eye” theme is a poor imitation of another famous...
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Droid Does Poor Billboard Placement
–Dan Kelly, Attorney Continuing on my previous comments that the entity(-ies) responsible for the Droid phone (i.e. Verizorolagoogasfilm, or whatever the consortium of Verizon, Motorola, Google, and...
View ArticleIs your Cell Phone Service Deceptively Misdescriptive?
–Susan Perera, Attorney There seems to be few industries with such fiercely combative advertising as wireless phone service providers. Reminiscent of the cell phone map advertisement war in 2009, 4G...
View ArticleConsolidation in the Cloud: Some Factors to Make Your Company an Attractive...
Verizon Communications Inc.’s recent acquisition of cloud-computing company Terremark Worldwide Inc. caused some analysts to speculate that there may be more consolidation in the cloud-computing...
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A Red (& White) Letter Day for Branding
We’ve noticed and commented on a variety of branding techniques and trends over the past couple of years: Less formal brand names; Single letter brands; Non-verbal logos; Verbing of brands; Dan saw...
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Without GameStop, It’s Just a Hat Trick . . . .
As you may recall, I’ve reported before about the trend toward and popularity of red & white letter branding and visual identities, so I couldn’t resist snapping this photo of a new strip mall in...
View ArticleThe New Big Brother: The Copyright Alert System
– Jake Sherlock, Law Student, William Mitchell College of Law Move over NSA, there’s a new Big Brother in town! As you are almost certainly not aware, the Copyright Alert System was implemented on...
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Pull the Blinds? More Red/White Letters!
Sorry team, I forgot I was up today, so this will be a quick one, with an invitation to review a couple of gems from the past: A Red (& White) Letter Day for Branding Without GameStop, It’s Just a...
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The Big Dance Around Trademark Madness
– Draeke Weseman, Weseman Law Office, PLLC Last week, the Chicago Sun Times profiled Loeb & Loeb attorney Douglas Masters, the NCAA’s outside counsel in charge of trademark enforcement during March...
View ArticleNominative Fair Use, as Illustrated by Colorful Balls
If you watch any amount of T.V. or happened to catch either of the AFC or NFC Championship games last weekend, you’ve probably seen one of the recent cell phone carrier ball commercials. Initially,...
View ArticleThe New Big Brother: The Copyright Alert System
– Jake Sherlock, Law Student, William Mitchell College of Law Move over NSA, there’s a new Big Brother in town! As you are almost certainly not aware, the Copyright Alert System was implemented on...
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Pull the Blinds? More Red/White Letters!
Sorry team, I forgot I was up today, so this will be a quick one, with an invitation to review a couple of gems from the past: A Red (& White) Letter Day for Branding Without GameStop, It’s Just a...
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The Big Dance Around Trademark Madness
– Draeke Weseman, Weseman Law Office, PLLC Last week, the Chicago Sun Times profiled Loeb & Loeb attorney Douglas Masters, the NCAA’s outside counsel in charge of trademark enforcement during March...
View ArticleNominative Fair Use, as Illustrated by Colorful Balls
— Jessica Gutierrez Alm, Attorney If you watch any amount of T.V. or happened to catch either of the AFC or NFC Championship games last weekend, you’ve probably seen one of the recent cell phone...
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