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UPDATE-APPLE PAYS SMALL FORTUNE TO USE IPAD TRADEMARK IN CHINA
In my December 28, 2011 blog entry titled Why Do A Trademark Search? I noted that Proview Technology, a Chinese company that tried to sell a tablet computer called I-PAD a number of years ago, registered that mark in China and that it was suing Apple resellers in China to halt the sale of Apple’s …
USING COLOR TO BRAND EFFECTIVELY
A January 19, 2012 Website Magazine blog post (See http://www.websitemagazine.com/content/blogs/posts/archive/2012/01/19/the-meaning-behind-color.aspx ) discussed the meanings that certain colors evoke to consumers. I summarize that post below: The author of that piece noted that “red” was the “color that eyes are drawn to first” and creates a sense of urgency. She noted that brands associated with red …
SELECTING GOOD TRADEMARKS-A GAME
In my first blog entry I discussed “Selecting a Trademark and Creating a Brand Identity.” For fun, I thought that I’d pick some products and have you, the readers of my blog, apply what I wrote in that entry to pick names for those products: Product #1-You are a large multinational oil company. One of …