And, in what I hope is my last post on foreign policy realism for the day, I think there’s a general problem with the oft-elided distinction between descriptive and prescriptive realism. Descriptive ...

Henry Mintzberg, a world-renowned professor of management studies at McGill University, once said, "Management is, above all, a practice where art, science and craft meet." What Mintzberg did not ...

Small businesses reviewing their banking records may notice something unusual in their withdrawal statement under the heading "Descriptive Withdrawal." Despite the name, statements rarely show much ...

“For many applications, non-functional descriptive material rejections are more than a historical relic. However, it is undeniable that they do have a long history, and that history has given rise to ...

I. Adding Distinctive Terms or Logos to a Descriptive or Generic Term Will Not Protect the Descriptive or Generic Term. A descriptive trademark1 is one that immediately brings to mind a use, purpose, ...

Before Prost, Taranto, and Stark. Appeal from the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. Summary: Continuous-use evidence is not necessarily prima facie evidence of acquired distinctiveness for a highly ...

Describing stuff can be the hardest part of writing prose fiction. You have a scene in your head, with all the dialogue and action, but now you have to fill in what everything looks like. There’s ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. For the past few decades, it was assumed that rising startups would opt for exact brand match domain names ending in the legacy top-level ...

Indian courts are increasingly attuned to market perception rather than formal registration alone. Three recent judgments highlight the strategic role of families of marks – adopting a common term is ...