Trademark

The owner of the popular Chickie and Pete’s (CP) restaurant chain, Pete Ciarrocchi, is on a tear trying to maintain his monopoly over the use of “crab fries,” a seasoned french fry product, which Philadelphia Magazine claims Ciarrocchi invented.  Not so says a handful of restaurants in the Maryland eastern shore who have orchestrated a […]

When clients ask us to file a trademark application, one of the first things we evaluate is the strength of the proposed trademark.  Is it a strong, distinctive mark that will pass muster with trademark law, or is it a weak, non-distinctive mark that will inevitably be rejected by the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO)?   […]

Yes, folks, there may be method (a little bit) to his madness. Charlie Sheen has filed trademark applications for 24 trademarks.  All your favorite sayings: “violent torpedo of truth,” “that’s what winners do,” “park your nonsense,” “you’ve been warned,” “I’m not bi–polar, I’m bi–winning,” “defeat is not an option,” “duh winning,” and the list goes […]