In 2010, Florida State University told Southeast High School in Bradenton, Florida that they could no longer use the “Seminoles” nickname and logos that the schools have both been using for over fifty years. Unlike many trademark disputes between collegiate institutions and high schools though, Southeast High School refused to “cease and desist” claiming that they were not infringing on Florida...

What’s in a word? As it turns out, quite a lot. The vast majority of words in our language, including trademarked terms, signify a variety of conceptual meanings and senses. This idea of splintered definition— described in the psycholinguistics literature as “semantic ambiguity” and offered in two flavors: “homonymy” (divergent and unrelated meanings) and “polysemy” (divergent yet related sense...

It has been brought to our attention that Laponite® is a trademark of BYK Additives, however the trademark symbol is missing in [1].[...].

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Internet search engines display advertisements along with search results, providing them with a major source of revenue. The display of ads is triggered by the use of keywords, which are found in the searches performed by search engine users. The fact that advertisers can buy a keyword that contains a trademark they do not own has caused controversy worldwide. To explore the actual effects of t...