3/23/2004

Louis Armstrong’s What a Wonderful World

— nSigma @ 7:41 am

WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD
(George Weiss / Bob Thiele)

I see trees of green, red roses too
I see them bloom for me and you
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world

I see skies of blue and clouds of white
The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world

The colours of the rainbow, so pretty in the sky
Are also on the faces of people going by
I see friends shakin’ hands, sayin’ "How do you do?"
They’re really saying "I love you"

I hear babies cryin’, I watch them grow
They’ll learn much more than I’ll ever know
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world
Yes, I think to myself, what a wonderful world

Oh yeah…

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3/18/2004

Starbucks v. Xingbake (Shanghai 2nd Intermediate People’s Court) -A Case Study, Part II

— nSigma @ 9:28 pm


Bake vs. Bucks

Summary: The case in question is not a trademark infringement case since neither companies has registered "xingbake (星巴克)" as a Chinese trademark and neither sides is selling products under this Chinese name, but rather it is a case of two disputes: 1) trade name/service mark dispute (over the name), and 2) trade dress dispute (over the logo). This report addresses these two issues respectively in the following text.

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3/12/2004

Starbucks v. Xingbake (Shanghai 2nd Intermediate People’s Court) -A Case Study, Part I

— nSigma @ 10:02 pm


Bake vs. Bucks

Although pessimistic about Xing-Ba-Ke’s fate in this lawsuit, I’ve decided to do a small case study on it just for fun. Given my tight schedule, I will have to do this in several installments.

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