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Showing posts with label trademarks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trademarks. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Speaking of Trademarks, Maybe Chik-fil-A Should Start Serving a Kale-fil-A

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Would you have a hard time distinguishing the source of a fast food chicken sandwich if a t-shirt company trademarked a phrase used on their...
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Word Wars - Dave Hester v. Trey Songz

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I want to bring attention to a portion of December 1st's post titled Words: Winning, Losing, Fighting and Banned in 2011 . Some of you m...
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Friday, October 1, 2010

Acronyms in the News

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The October 1 issue of The Week magazine mentions that the International House of Pancakes is suing the International House of Prayer (A Ka...
Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Reader's Favorites - Zipper Falls Prey to Genericide

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A zipper by any other name...is still a zipper. When the word zipper was first trademarked it was considered a proper noun that was capitali...
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Thursday, May 1, 2008

Zipper Falls Prey to Genericide

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A zipper by any other name...is still a zipper. When the word zipper was first trademarked it was considered a proper noun that was capita...
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Onomatopoeias Zipping Past

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This morning while driving my son to school, he mentioned that yesterday was National Zipper Day. While I think all the various "Nation...
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