Designs

What Apple Did to Protect the Logo for the Apple Watch Sport

Yesterday, Bill wrote a touching post about how we received trademark protection for TRUST TREE on his wedding anniversary. But TRUST TREE shares a trademark birthday with another thing near and dear to our hearts . . . the Apple Watch Sport. Indeed, yesterday, the Apple Watch Sport’s stylized logo was registered as a trademark by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. As you may have noticed, we are big Apple fans around the Tree of Trust. Three of us rep the Apple Watch Sport, so it is fitting we share a trademark registration date. While we share a registration […]

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Celebrate National Hot Dog Day With Trademarks!

It’s National Hot Dog Day! The origin of this holiday is unclear, but considering July is National Hot Dog Month, I suppose it makes sense to have it all culminate in a single day. Of course, as the father of two young children, I sometimes feels like National Hot Dog Day is everyday. The frankfurter came to the United States with immigrants from Germany, and the wienerwurst, or wiener, came with those from Austria. The practice of eating them with bread supposedly began on Coney Island in Brooklyn in the late 1860s or early 1870s, when a German immigrant named […]

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