Category: Trademarks

[ngg src=”galleries” ids=”1″ display=”basic_slideshow”]The ninth annual E-Trademarks Listserv reception took place on Tuesday, May 22 in Boston. It was a complete success. Thanks to Will McGuire for these great photographs!

Meet the Bloggers XV took place on Monday, May 20 in Boston. It was a great success. Here are the bloggers who were in attendance — from left: yours truly, Pamela Chestek, Tara Aaron, Marty Schwimmer, John Welch, Ron Coleman, and Erik Pelton.

Next week I will be on the road again, to co-host the two least commercial and, I think, most fun, events at INTA time in Boston, namely Meet the Bloggers XV and the Ninth Annual E-Trademarks Listserv Reception.  I hope you will attend.

The E-Trademarks reception is now in its ninth year of tradition, taking place as usual during INTA time, this year in Boston.

As in many past years, generous donors help to sponsor the reception, which you can read about here.  You can see the twelve sponsors in the poster at right.  Two posters like this will be on easels at the event.

As you can see from the prominent place on the poster, five of the sponsors were particularly generous.  But what I find extremely … I guess heart-warming … is that one of the particularly generous sponsors gave on condition that the sponsor’s name not be disclosed.

The philosopher Maimonides is among many who describe the giving of an anonymous gift as one of the highest levels of giving.  Our anonymous sponsor said to me:

OK.  Look for my personal check … on condition you will not mention my name but give credit for it only to:

Anonymous TM Administrator, as a tip of the hat to a remarkable community on behalf all participating and lurking administrators and paralegals.

So, maybe you would like to enjoy a drink with this remarkable community.  If so, drop by next Tuesday in Boston.  Maybe unbeknownst to you, you will click a wine glass or share a smile with this anonymous trademark administrator.

(Note:  All users of Feathers! need to read all of this article.)

The old aphorism asks “what weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of lead?”  And of course the answer is they weigh the same.  But when it comes to the Feathers! software, today we have a metaphor.

What got me thinking in a philosophical way about this was that late yesterday the telephone rang in my office, and it was the Commissioner for Trademarks, Mary Boney Denison, calling for me. Continue reading “A Pound of Feathers!”

MEET THE BLOGGERS, widely recognized as the best non-INTA event ever devised, will be convened for the fifteenth time (thus “MTB XV”) on Monday, May 20th, 8:00 – 10:00 PM, at Kings Dining and Entertainment (a/k/a KINGS BOWL), 60 Seaport Boulevard (a few blocks from the Convention Center). Come and meet some of the best trademark attorneys in the world, and while you’re at it say hello to the bloggers. For details, directions, and the RSVP link, go HERE.

It is my honor to post the fourth annual US Trademark Toteboard. This toteboard lists the firms that obtained the most US trademark registrations in 2018.

You can see the other 2018 toteboards here.