According to the Denver Business Journal (here) and the Chicagoist (here), global brewer Anheuser Busch filed trademark applications with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office to associate the three-character airport code for 42 U.S. airports with beer. On May 1, 2012, Anheuser Busch filed an intent to use trademark application for DEN, the three-digit IATA…
Earlier this morning, ICANN released information related to the 1,900+ applications for new gTLDs. See the full list here. It seems that many prognostications regarding certain applied for strings have borne out. There are a few surprises as well. Applications span the spectrum of .brands, generic terms, and geographic or ethnic designations. This list will…
On Friday of last week, I attended a presentation hosted by Senator Michael Bennet regarding the future of crowd-funding. In April, President Obama signed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (“JOBS”) Act, see full-text here. Senator Bennet of Colorado, working with Senators Scott Brown of Massachusetts and Jeff Merkley of Oregon, crafted an amendment to the…
According to @domainincite, ICANN will release the list of over 1900 applications for the new gTLD program at a press conference that will be webcasted from London on June 13, 2012 at 13:00 GMT. The process of getting to the June 13th reveal date has had its share of hiccups, and more are sure to…
