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Thursday, September 22

More on Jack Radio: Suing When We Want

by Mark VB Partridge on Thu 22 Sep 2005 08:23 PM EST

SparkNet claims rights in Jack and the slogan "playing what we want," but was not successful pursuing its claim recently in Illinois, according to this article:

Not everyone sees things SparkNet's way. Earlier this month, a magistrate judge in U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois ruled in favor of Bonneville International Corp. in a trademark infringement case SparkNet filed. The judge ruled that Bonneville's use of the slogans "whatever we feel like" and "whatever we want" didn't constitute infringement, adding, "This battle is better fought in the marketplace than in the court. ... If every radio station that adopts a slogan ... more »

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Can't Register President

by Mark VB Partridge on Thu 22 Sep 2005 09:00 AM EST

This week in class we talked about the prohibition in Section 2 of the Lanham Act on registering trademarks based on the name or depiction of a living president or a dead president during the life of his widow (yes, the statute still says "his widow").

So this story is apropos:

"Clinton Finds Himself on Cover of Condom Packs"

Perhaps he was hoping for the cover of Rolling Stone.

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