Long before he met with Sean Penn for an interview that would lead, at least partly, to his recapture last week, lawyers for Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán applied to have his name trademarked, the Guardian reports, citing Mexican journalist Carlos Loret de Mola.
What would Tyler Perry Presents Tyler Perry's Jesus™, starring Tyler Perry, do? We're probably about to find out, because the omnipresent creator of the Madea franchise now controls the trademark on "What Would Jesus Do?"
The U.S. Patent and Trademark office ruled today to cancel the trademark for the Washington Redskins' name, citing a law that prohibits trademarks that may disparage people or bring them "into contempt or disrepute."
We've already covered some of the “Tragedy for Sale” opportunistic douches who waited almost an entire day before attempting to profit from last week's bombings in Boston. On Monday – as the Huffington Post was the first to report – news broke that a second round of apparent tragedy opportunists attempted to cash in…
They call her the "Flying Squirrel," but if gold medalist Gabby Douglas wants to profit from the nickname, she's going to have to battle the college student who snatched up the trademark first.
If you mess with the Olympics trademark, a cloud of legal hurt will descend on you faster than Tyson Gay in the Men's 100 meters. Case in point: The U.S. Olympic Committee has sent a cease and desist letter to a knitting-based social network for hosting a knitting "olympics." Now, knitters are in revolt.
Heady development from the cutthroat world of slogan trademarking: Pepsi is officially not "The Choice of a New Generation" any more. Pepsi Co. poured countless millions into promoting the slogan, but stopped using it 20 years ago. Now, Ad Age reports that it has been scooped up by Malt-O-Meal! Which is called "MOM…
There have been a number of bad faith attempts to trademark Occupy Wall Street for business purposes. Now the protest organizers themselves are trying to trademark Occupy Wall Street themselves.
Looks like Robert and Diane Maresca—who attempted to trademark "Occupy Wall Street" earlier this week—aren't the only people trying to make a buck off of the protests! An Atlanta man is trying to get his own Occupy Wall Street-related trademark: "The words 'occupy this' with an arrow pointed down."
A Long Island couple is trying to trademark "Occupy Wall Street" for use on merchandise. Come on, hippies, you're wasting a perfectly good brand with all this protesting stuff.
"Tik Tok" singer Ke$ha is suing a watch company for naming a watchstrap the "TikTok." Someone should tell the U.S. Treasury to sue Ke$ha for abusing the dollar sign.
America's favorite fighter jet Charlie Sheen, apparently realizing he is sitting on a hypothetical goldmine of branded paraphernalia, is attempting to trademark 22 of the phrases he's coined during his latest manic episode, including:
As you may have noticed, the Huffington Post's name begins with the letter "H." But don't say it! Because they've trademarked it. The letter, that is. So it's theirs now.
Jersey Shore's Snooki has hired a firm to slap her name on every sort of product imaginable. And she's applying for trademarks on a variety of her catchphrases, too. The Snooki onslaught is coming—and it's scary!
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez™ has tightened his totalitarian grip on the country by banning the reproduction of his "name, image or figure" for murals and other propaganda without express permission from the government. The revolution will not be illegally reproduced.
Poor Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino! The Jersey Shore star lost a bid to trademark his nickname for a line of clothing. It gets worse: Mike's last name was just trademarked by someone else. For a line of clothing. Last week.
After indicating earlier this year that it would create a new category specifically for medical marijuana trademarks, the US Patent and Trademark Office has now reversed itself. Which is good, because, dude. You cannot trademark "Maui Wowie." Come on, dude.
A judge has ruled that the city—not the restaurant's previous operator—controls the name of the famous tourist trap, which closed January 1. Thank God. Now when it reopens, our grandmother won't drag us to "Tavern on the Park."
A little tour through the trademark office shows that be-costumed avant-pop pan-flash of the moment Lady Gaga is making it official. She's made a legal brand of her moniker and may slap it on a whole host of products.
This looks just like that, not that you can ever get too much news about Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino, of course. [TSG, previously]
