This “refresher on trademark basics” is addressed to the craft beer industry, but it’s filled with solid information for anyone who needs to legally own a business name. (Hat tip: Timberlake Law.)
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More beer? Sure, why not. Craft brewers run out of catchy names “as puns run dry.”
Girl Stout cookie beer; Breaking Bad beer.
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Sex columnist Dan Savage is skeptical about public radio station KPLU’s new call letters. The PLU in the old name stood for Pacific Lutheran University – many public-radio stations originated on college campuses – but I always associated it with French il pleut = “it’s raining.” Seemed right for Seattle. (Hat tip: ScareQuotes.)
Seattle pub radio station @KPLU has new call letters. Supposed to read as "connects." I see "kinks." Via @seattlish pic.twitter.com/mNMptfF9vB
— Dan Savage (@fakedansavage) August 12, 2016
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It’s not just Macintosh: some of Apple’s subsidiaries are named for other apple varieties. (Hat tip: Amanda Peterson.)
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Internet of Come Up with a
— Ed Timberlake (@TimberlakeLaw) August 16, 2016
Different Name, Already#trademarks #naming pic.twitter.com/6XcaabdAms
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Why crowdsourced branding is a bad idea. The focus is on design, but the advice applies to name and tagline development, too.
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How journalists use police jargon to obscure the truth.
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Related: an interactive guide to ambiguous grammar. Be sure to read the whole thing.
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Should we refrain from using the expression “drink the Kool-Aid” because of its association with the Jonestown tragedy?
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Huzzah! Lexicographer Kory Stamper (Merriam-Webster, Harmless Drudgery) has a book coming out next year! It’s gonna be one fun read.
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Let’s enjoy a hearty chuckle over the names of household items in Iceland. (Via Nancy Nall)
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How Random House, McSweeney’s, and nine other publishers got their names. (I wrote about one of those names, Akashic, in 2011.)
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please tell us what else. #dontcallitthat pic.twitter.com/xJq9NaYWBC
— eli altman (@elialtman) August 18, 2016
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