By: C. Briccetti
In January of 2007, it became public that Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (MSO) intended to trademark “Katonah” to be used for a line of furniture, paints, and other home furnishings.i Katonah is the name of a tony Westchester County hamlet of the Town of Bedford located about 40 miles north of New York [...]
By: A.M.
In 1999, the Ninth Circuit in Brookfield Communication v. West Coast Entertainment held that the intentional use of a company’s trademark as a metatag on a competitor’s website constituted trademark infringement. This landmark case relied upon the doctrine of initial interest confusion, as articulated by the Second Circuit in Mobile Oil Corporation v. [...]
By: Kellie Kroyer
On November 5, 2007, over 12,000 television and film writers went on strike, crippling productions and, as of the date of this writing, costing the industry upwards of $1 billion. The strike was the result of three key points of contention which arose during contract negotiations between the Writers Guild of America [...]