this is female absentminded professor erasure (i kid but... YIKES 🤬)

Contrived pronunciations and spellings of brand names are annoying. Glad to have The New York Times ask me and esteemed colleagues @fritinancy.bsky.social and @lexlanham.bsky.social about them.

ok go, imma let you finish, but kinky boots has the best treadmill dance OF ALL TIME 💃🏻 👠

guys. listen to me. we do not have anywhere to put 2 feet of snow. the places where the 2 feet of snow would go are ALREADY COVERED WITH THE TWO FEET OF SNOW WE GOT PREVIOUSLY THIS MONTH THAT NEVER WENT AWAY x.com/boston25/sta...

8 days until i get to see alysa liu skate live in person asdfghjk

ok trademark nerds, is DRIZZY descriptive or suggestive for peanut butter in a drizzle bottle? 😆 🥜 getdrizzy.co

remember when some guy applied to register THE PUSSY GRABBER as a trademark for sex toys right around the time that the supreme court was deciding the constitutionality on the ban on registration of scandalous/immoral marks? update: he abandoned it & left no forwarding address

kelce & mahomes put their jersey numbers together when they named their KC steakhouse "1587 prime" but a company that uses "1587" as a trademark for sneakers since 2023 is suing them for trademark infringement www.sportico.com/law/analysis...

i need to record some lectures but my little dog is snoring too loudly?! wfh problems

oh you can actually! it’s just puffery 💨

oh, ok

someone in my local buy nothing group giving away these books “for crafting” 🥴

plaintiff "does not plausibly allege that reasonable consumers are fooled by buffalo wild wings' use of the term 'boneless wings,'" even if he was. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

I will be presenting my recent work on AI Influencers as part of a wonderful panel next week on "Influencer Law" at Northeastern with @lexlanham.bsky.social, @jeannefromer.bsky.social and moderated by @staceylantagne.bsky.social. Would love to see Boston friends law.northeastern.edu/event/influe...

a corp. called "KimYe's Kid" filed 3 applications to register NOR11 as a trademark for clothing, jewelry, & bags last month @radar_online reports "north west to launch fashion empire," but the apps list kim as ceo & do not include consent by north west radaronline.com/p/north-west...

"can this trader joe's copycat skirt copyright law?" well yes, because copyright law does not protect product names or the shape & appearance of crustless sandwiches, nor is trader joe's getting sued for copyright infringement guys i know the alliteration feels irresistable but pls

autodesk, which has been using FLOW as a trademark for its production management & video effects software since 2022, sued google for trademark infringement over its use of FLOW for its AI-powered movie-making software targeting the same consumers www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

novo nordisk sues hims & hers, alleging the telehealth platform's use of "wegovy" & "ozempic" in its marketing materials infringes their TM rights by misleading consumers into believing the 2 companies are affiliated or novo nordisk endorses the use www.geneonline.com/novo-nordisk...

application to register SWIFT HOME for bedding abandoned shortly after taylor swift filed an opposition. life comes at you fast! www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

some trademark trivia re: "the shield": apparently LAPD informed FOX that their name, badges, & iconography were protected by trademark law & threatened legal action if the show referenced them too explicitly the show was originally titled "rampart" www.tvline.com/2093931/the-...

i agree it's not too surprising that this app garnered an opposition

because i have published empirical research on multi-level marketing & advertising law i have a google alert set up for "mlm & marketing" & that is how i have come to be aware of a GRUESOME HERBALIFE-RELATED MURDER don't google it, just take my word

obsessed with the flyer for our feb. 26 @clicatnusl.bsky.social event on influencer law join us! 🤩

everybody keeps recommending kettlebell swings but i feel so confident i would somehow smash my own face in? like i like fitness but i also like having teeth

the woman across from me on the green line just took a cuticle trimmer out of her backpack & is now trimming her cuticles what is happening here is this the mbta manicure express

you can pry my double iced doppio out of my cold* dead etc etc *be sure to double check: just because they're cold doesn't mean i'm dead

on weds., uspto director squires described uspto as “america’s branding agency" while another speaker at the same event pointed out the rise in people asserting “ownership in their own personal brands.” & yes, personal brand lawsuits are on the rise: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

OpenAI argues the claude superbowl ads are misleading b/c the chatGPT ads "will appear labeled at the bottom...in banners & will not alter the chatbot’s answers" BUT...the chagpt ads will still be conversation-specific, i.e. prompted by the content of the chat. arstechnica.com/information-...

pats lost so my temple has to send a box of mike’s cannoli & a big bag of cape cod potato chips to a temple in seattle along with a pic of the clergy holding a sign that says “mazel tov seahawks”

ok nerds, what do we think about pepsi coopting the coke polar bears for its super bowl ad? any trademark rights actually implicated here? mouthattack says “fans are split between calling it clever marketing & accusing pepsi of crossing an unwritten branding line” 👀 🥤

bet the family group chat spinoff devoted entirely to sports commentary* is popping off tonight *includes all family members except me and my mom

when your kid is sick & hasn’t really eaten anything in 22 hours & all your energy is focused on cheering for her so hard like “eat that popsicle!! you can do it! sip of pedialyte, just a quick sip, so yummy, you got this!!” 😬 this cup of blue raspberry pedialyte is my superbowl

on this day last year i was on tv for a hot second as part of @CBSNews' pre-superbowl coverage talking about trademark registrations for THREEPEAT 🏈® 😆 www.facebook.com/watch/?mibex...

on weds., uspto director squires described uspto as “america’s branding agency" while another speaker at the same event pointed out the rise in people asserting “ownership in their own personal brands.” & yes, personal brand lawsuits are on the rise: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

sorry but we don’t have any room for more snow? we are already full up on snow idk how this is even going to work www.nbcboston.com/news/local/s...

my 8 y/o and I are wearing matching clueless pajamas that say “total betty” & “ugh, as if” & “that was way harsh” & are decorated with flip phones & feather pens & cassette tapes I think we will probably stay in them all weekend

yesterday i spoke on an "IP year in review" trademark panel hosted by the boston bar association my co-panelists & i focused on a) AI in TM practice; b) university/sports TM disputes, & c) dupes bostonbar.org/conferences/...

tracking a really juicy false advertising case by a company called apeel & looking forward to the inevitable punny headlines if an adverse ruling leads apeel to appeal

WHOOP gets a preliminary injunction against a lookalike fitness tracker that copies its asserted trade dress, "a continuous fabric band that wraps over the device (i.e., a faceless device) with thin metal accents on the side of the device" www.mobihealthnews.com/news/whoop-s...

birthday presents from my parents last weekend & my reactions: throw blanket & glass candlesticks me: these are nice jewelry me: oh, very pretty, thank you heated gloves: me: ARE YOU KIDDING ME THIS IS THE BEST GIFT I HAVE EVER RECEIVED IN MY LIFE

democracy dies in…

when you’re afraid to say “superbowl” because the NFL is a trademark bully but you have no qualms about using an athlete’s name in commercial advertising (use code MAYE10) 🤔

IT HAPPENED TO ME: lady next to me on the green line just took out a nail clipper & is clipping all ten of her fingernails! probably too cold to do toes this morning 😅 💅🏼 🚂

hey 😒 I’m not that bad

me, a trademark law professor: when you see shirts with a professional sports team logo, do you expect them to come from/be licensed by the team? why or why not? my local facebook group: come get your pats merch for the superbowl from a tent in the pahking lot of the packy!

class action alleges FLORIDA'S NATURAL grapefruit juice misleads consumers by advertising the brand as “owned by florida farmers” & displaying an image of a US flag when its products contain grapefruit juice from mexico truthinadvertising.org/wp-content/u...

overheard while my students work on trade dress functionality hypos: “it’s giving morton norwich spray bottle”

in other "trademark cases have the best captions" news, nothing bundt cakes sues phat cakes for trademark infringement over frosting patterns nothing bundt has a registration for "long, narrow strips of tubular ring-shaped frosting that expand radially outward from the center"

jury finds vaportoke & daddy dankz infringed california-based bong maker's trademark for a gravity infuser, awarding $200k in damages companies are choosing their names without really thinking about how they'll look on a verdict form 😂 www.law360.com/articles/243...

it’s pocky vs pepero day in trademark law! 😋