TMs

My follow up method has been refined and perfected over 15 years, granted it is one that other TMs could only dream of, but it allows me to organise my calls to have maximum effect.

Battle Looming Over Do Not Call Register | Lifehacker Australia 2009

Social networks may overreact and prohibit all mention/use of TMs; an upside of more rules would be to make it clearer what social networks should do to avoid secondary liability.

IPSC: trademark and the consumer Rebecca Tushnet 2009

There are common-law antecedents: protecting TMs in noncompetitive settings.

Archive 2009-03-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

Courts may not need to protect TMs to avoid increasing search costs.

Archive 2009-10-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

Heymann for McKenna: You mention in the paper that even post-patent, TMs have a quality control function.

Archive 2009-02-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

That TMs have value, which is what your point addresses, is not the same thing as saying that TMs should generate exclusive rights.

Archive 2009-03-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

When the Commissioner finally reversed course on this point, allowing registration of labels with TMs on them, there was a flood of registrations.

IPSC: Mixed IP Rebecca Tushnet 2009

In TM, for example, we think of competitors and consumers, but the rise of viral marketing and the ubiquity of TMs with semantic meaning used regularly in ordinary speech, which undermines producer control, have changed things.

Archive 2009-02-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

Another consideration: Copyright was $1, TMs were a lot more expensive at $25 — a lot of suspicion that people were trying to avoid paying registration fees.

IPSC: Mixed IP Rebecca Tushnet 2009

Foreign use has relevance in many TM situations — the ACPA takes into account foreign registrations of TMs in deciding cybersquatting.

Archive 2009-10-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009