Tue, Dec 15th 2020 8:02pm
Timothy Geigner
We cover a great many ridiculous and infuriating trademark disputes here, but it s always the disputes around overly broad terms that never should have been trademarked to begin with that are the most frustrating. And that most irritating of
those is when we get into geographic terms that never should be locked up by any single company or entity. Examples in the past have included companies fighting over who gets to use the name of their home city of Detroit , or when grocer Iceland Foods got so aggressive in its own trademark enforcement that the checks notes