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Blogger Matt Soniak answers:

The international Christian humanitarian aid group works with Major League Baseball, the NFL, and the NBA to collect misprinted merchandise and distribute it to people living in impoverished nations. (MLB used to require the destruction of shirts and hats proclaiming the wrong champions, but two years ago they began donating their postseason [...]

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In case anyone is going to be in or around Cleveland on November 12-13 (and needs a break after the hiring conference!), we are hosting a symposium on trademark and domain name issues in cyberspace with a terrific group of speakers.  Keynotes to be provided by Daniel Gervais (Vanderbilt) who will be speaking on geographic [...]

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From the NYT:
…Twelve years after the hit pop tune “Barbie Girl” raised the hackles of the toymaker that sells Barbie, Mattel, the song is being adapted for Barbie advertising.
Mattel has uploaded to YouTube a video clip of a dance called the Barbie, which is danced to a rerecorded version of “Barbie Girl.” The video is [...]

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From the NY Daily News:
A freelance artist is suing New York University, saying her alma mater’s famous bobcat mascot is really just a copycat.
Ariel Fleurimond says the mascot NYU unveiled in 2008 and began plastering on apparel, memorabilia, posters, its Web site and even the gymnasium floor is a design she created at the request [...]

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From the NYT:
A new food-labeling campaign called Smart Choices, backed by most of the nation’s largest food manufacturers, is “designed to help shoppers easily identify smarter food and beverage choices.”
The green checkmark label that is starting to show up on store shelves will appear on hundreds of packages, including — to the surprise of many [...]

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As Don Ho (and others) have sung:
Tiny bubbles
In the wine
Make me feel happy
Ah, they make me feel fine
Those tiny bubbles
Make me warm all over
With a feeling that I’m gonna
Love you till the end of time
The little charming talk bubbles all over the Internet communications have a similar warm effect. They remind me of comic [...]

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Probably without authorization from the mark holders!

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In which I take a few whacks at lousy IP law reporting: Here’s an excerpt from the article:
Mandy Webster had come all the way from Pennsylvania to visit the house where Lizzie Borden once lived, and she was not about to go home empty-handed. After touring the three-story clapboard house, the site of one of [...]

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At least according to the TTAB which said:
In this case, it is the term PUSSY which is the focus of the refusal and our analysis. The term PUSSY is the most significant element in the mark. Accordingly, when we discuss the term PUSSY alone, we are mindful that the entire mark is the mark shown [...]

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From here:

The Big Ten collegiate conference has eleven schools but they didn’t want to change their name. However, they used their logo to hide the numerical “11” in the name.
Many more at the source site.

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This. I’m guessing the product name is “merely descriptive” but will not be doing any empirical research on the question.

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The people walking by, not so much. Via.

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The machine prints and binds books on demand in five minutes, while customers wait. From The Guardian:
It’s not elegant and it’s not sexy – it looks like a large photocopier – but the Espresso Book Machine is being billed as the biggest change for the literary world since Gutenberg invented the printing press more than [...]

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He is Che Guevera, and this NYT book review further notes:
…The supermodel Gisele Bündchen pranced [ed: "Pranced?" Blarg...] down a runway in a Che bikini. A men’s wear company brought out a Che action figure, complete with fatigues, a beret, a gun and a cigar. And an Australian company produced a “cherry Guevara” ice cream [...]

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