Tag: IP Law

Can Bugs Bunny and the “What’s Up Doc?” Trademark cause confusion with a real MD?

Here’s another good likelihood of confusion test/example in a recent trademark application for a mark that you all might have heard of before. On January 13th, 2021, Warner Bros. filed a trademark opposition against Lawrence Merle Nelson DBA William Brown MD, for his application to register “What’s Up Doc?” for “personal coaching services in the […]

Batman, Bananas, Halloween and the Law

Generally speaking, whenever the words “Halloween” and “Law” are together you hear stories about trick or treaters getting injured on someone else’s property or someone getting injured in a haunted house or corn maze and not about trademark or copyright law areas. My goal here is to change that logic, and make you think twice […]