There was a good article in the July/August 2010 issue of Landslide which discusses protecting your brand from counterfeiters. The article, titled “Fighting Back: A 10-point Plan to Protect Your Brand from Counterfeiters,” outlines 10 points useful for those concerned with brand protection. In sum the 10 points are:
- Register Your Trademarks
- Record your registered trademarks with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection
- Monitor and Investigate trademark offices, the marketplace, affiliates and supply chains, and domain names
- Take legal action when counterfeiters are caught
- Seek formal recognition as a well-known mark in the countries which allow obtaining such a status
- Work with local authorities, such as in foreign territories
- Utilize the press using press releases and notices
- Make it difficult to copy your products and packaging
- Keep written anti-counterfeiting policies and guidelines which are to be distributed to employees and affiliates
- Be active by networking through global or national organizations
For anyone interested in this area, the article is a great read. A copy of it can be found here.
Check out this article about how bloggers and other online posters may be liable for the things they post “anonymously”
Blogger Beware: You Can Be Sued Over ‘Anonymous’ Posts – via ABAJournal
The city of Los Angeles, LA for short. I don’t know how the trend of calling LA “lala land” originated, but I hate it. This isn’t lala land, call it LA.
That is all.
Today is a day of remembrance for the 1.5 million lives lost during the Armenian Genocide, which took place beginning April 24, 1915. Please take a moment to remember…
Last year I wrote a series of posts on the topic that you can see here:
For additional information on the Armenian Genocide check out these sites:
The Armenian National Institute – The Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide Information and Recognition
I am super excited that the Olympics have started, but I have to say I was disappointed by the opening ceremonies.
Did you catch tonight’s Olympics Opening Ceremonies? I was bored out of my mind. Sure there were some high points like projected Orcas swimming across the stage and the mind boggling hair of that opera singer… but the rest? come on.
I wanted excitement and impossible daring feats. I got a poet from youtube and a boy twirling in the air performing “can you see the wind.” Is this the impression you wanted the world to have, Canada? Is this what you wanted me to take away from the opening ceremonies? Boredom?
Should have used the Disney Epcot Pavillion sound track (Oh Canada, you’re a lifetime journey for the traveler) or the whole attraction would have been fine also.
I wonder if there is a transcript of the speech the CEO gave, which was a series of lists combined to form a speech.
Regardless, the torch is lit and the games have commenced! Can’t wait to watch the events!!
Went to the Pablove Foundation Benefit Show. A good concert for a good cause.
…though I do wish that Shirley Manson had done a couple more songs…
The last two mornings my car has been covered in ash when I’ve gone out to leave for work.
The massive Station fire has been burning for a while now. I live about 10 miles southeast of the fire areas and we’ve had favorable winds most of the time, blowing the smoke and ash in the directions away from us. The last couple days though, it seems, over night when the breeze dies down ash settles, all the way where we are.
Even 40-50 miles out from the fire the skies are hazy from the smoke.
Hopefully this can be cleared up soon, I’d like to have an ash free car at some point in the near future.
Here is a view of the fire from my place when it was still relatively small:
Station Fire in the first few days
A fire near Malibu Canyon can be seen from Calabasas right now. Mulholland Hwy is closed from April Rd. to Las Virgenes…
update 8:25: it is at least partially contained
5.0 Earthquake in LA a few minutes ago… felt a little jiggle in Hollywood…
As I mentioned earlier, my Great Grandmother was a survivor of the Armenian Genocide. As a young girl, she lived with her large and wealthy family in Aintab, Turkey. Her father was a well respected and liked merchant, well known by Turkish officials. In the months leading up to the events now called the Armenian Genocide, officials of the Turkish government repeatedly assured my Great Grandmother’s family and father that there was no need to worry about the safety of the family. They promised not to harm the family.
The family’s neighbor’s had a son, a youngster, who worked as a servant boy in the officials’ offices. One night, while working, he overheard the officials stating that they would be getting rid of my Great Grandmother’s family like all the other Armenians. As soon as he could, he left work and informed by Great Grandmother’s family of what he had overheard. Likely saving my Great Grandmother’s life.
On hearing what was about the happen to their family,to prevent the Turks from taking everything, my Great Great Grandmother began burning some of their belongings and instructed a few of her children to bury the most valuable of these belongings under a nearby church. Not much later the Turks arrived at their doorstep. Beating them with whips and sticks, demanding that they leave their home. My Great Grandmother hid in the home, witnessing her family members get tortured, beaten, raped, and killed, from her vantage point. Soon, the remaining surviving members of her family and herself were forced to march hundreds of miles, first to the city of Aleppo and then to the desert of Havran Cholu. They were left there in the desert to die without water or food. Of her large family only a handful were able to survive the beatings and later the treacherous conditions of the desert. These remaining members managed to escape to Aleppo. With no money and no belongings they survived by eating grain that they found trapped in the bristles of brooms and off the coats of horses. Later, what remained of the family lived in Iskandarun, before moving to Lebanon.
My Great Grandmother lived an incredibly long life passing away, in Los Angeles, at a very very old age on Christmas Eve in the late 1990′s. Please take a moment today to remember those who were murdered in the Armenian Genocide…
The series of posts on the Armenian Genocide:
