George Wyllie's trademark was the question mark, his works intended to provoke thought and discussion rather than provide answers.

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If you were the owner of the KOOL-AID mark at the time, it raised what certainly was no MICKEY MOUSE trademark problem.

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Registration of a trademark does provide some legal presumptions, including the presumption that a mark is valid and enforceable in court.

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Of course, and this is a topic for another day, no one is required to own a federal registration to use a trademark, and the absence of a registration does not prove a mark is unlawful.

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Goodwillie's trademark close control got him into a great position to score but the striker missed his mark with the shot.

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Despite the gauntlet that is the United States Patent and Trademark Office, many of the trademarks which are allowed by the Trademark Office are opposed by some competitor in an administrative law tribunal because they feel the mark violated one of the rules of registration.

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You never want your trademark used generically, which is where the product and the name are synonymous, because then the mark becomes used as a noun.

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