{"id":29,"date":"2014-03-03T10:22:28","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T15:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/?p=29"},"modified":"2014-03-03T10:24:29","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T15:24:29","slug":"oh-give-me-a-home-where-the-bison-roam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/?p=29","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Oh Give Me A Home, Where the Bison Roam, . . . &#8220;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Similarity of trademarks is judged based upon appearance, sound, <strong><em>and<\/em><\/strong> meaning, as Sazerac recently reminded us.\u00a0 Sazerac, the makers of <strong>Buffalo Trace<\/strong> bourbon <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Sazerac-Complaint.pdf\">sued<\/a><\/strong><\/em>\u00a0 Intercontinental Packaging Company d\/b\/a Crosby Lakes Spirits Co. over their Bison Ridge brand of Canadian whisky.\u00a0 While &#8220;buffalo&#8221; and &#8220;bison&#8221; are different is appearance and sound, they are one in the same animal, the scientific name of the American Buffalo is <em>bison bison<\/em>.\u00a0 It will be interesting to see whether similarity of meaning carries the day.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Similarity of trademarks is judged based upon appearance, sound, and meaning, as Sazerac recently reminded us.\u00a0 Sazerac, the makers of Buffalo Trace bourbon sued\u00a0 Intercontinental Packaging Company d\/b\/a Crosby Lakes Spirits Co. over their Bison Ridge brand of Canadian whisky.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/?p=29\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32,"href":"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}