The GRAMMY AWARDS® (or GRAMMY®, GRAMMYS®, or MUSIC'S BIGGEST NIGHT®, if you prefer) is an annual awards show recognizing outstanding achievements in music.

The Grown in Idaho Logo design mark isn’t just a feel-good farm badge; it is one of the oldest still-active certification marks in the US and a result of one of the strictest agricultural certification systems in the United States.

“Alright alright alright.” With those three words in the 1993 movie Dazed and Confused, Matthew McConaughey the movie star was born. But did you know that the iconic phrase is also a rare trademark trifecta?

Indiana University is one of the oldest public universities west of the Allegheny Mountains. IU was first founded as a state seminary in 1820 before becoming Indiana College in 1828 and getting renamed to Indiana University in 1838. While IU has a long and storied basketball history, its football team has not seen as much success before recent years.

Founded in 1925, the University of Miami is relatively young by college standards, but the Hurricanes quickly rose from a regional upstart to national powerhouse in football.

Congratulations to the University of Miami and Indiana University for advancing through the College Football Playoffs to the 2026 College Football National Championship Game! This week we will be highlighting some college football championship related trademark registrations, including those owned by the Miami Hurricanes and the Indiana Hoosiers. Good luck to both teams!

The Golden Globes (or GOLDEN GLOBE® or HOLLYWOOD'S PARTY OF THE YEAR®, if you prefer) is an annual awards show recognizing outstanding achievements in motion pictures and television.

The Omega Logo is a significant piece of trademark history – it is one of the oldest still-active design mark registrations in the United States! And like many of the best long-lasting trademarks, it wasn’t born in a boardroom but grew out of a reputation for quality that came first.

Al Johnson’s is a Swedish restaurant based in Sister Bay, Wisconsin. The restaurant building has a grass sod roof. And in the summer months, that roof is home to a herd of grazing goats.

The DoALL company was founded in 1927, when Illinois inventor Leighton A. Wilkie built one of the world’s first metal-cutting band saws and launched a company that would quietly reshape the industrial cutting industry.

The VASELINE® brand has gone by a variety of generic names in the past, including healing jelly, petroleum jelly, and (originally before the brand was created) “rod wax.” Not entirely surprisingly for a brand first founded in the 1800s, it has also utilized a wide variety and types of product jars. Let’s take a look!

VASELINE® petroleum jelly was first discovered as “rod wax,” a sticky substance scraped off oil pump rods. It turns out that putting “rod wax” on your skin was useful long before the internet made jokes about it.

The MAKER’S MARK® brand is often credited with completely changing the American Whiskey market, including how whiskey was marketed. One of the big visual differentiators? The Maker’s Mark Wax Seal position mark, with its distinctive drips of red wax positioned on the neck of whisky bottles.

The Maker’s Mark brand was founded in the 1950s. Bill Samuels, Sr. shaped everything people would taste in the whisky, and his wife Margie Samuels shaped everything people would see in the brand.

Congratulations to Vancouver Whitecaps FC for advancing to the 2025 MLS Cup! Let’s take a look at the team’s trademark registrations!

Congratulations to Inter Miami CF for advancing to the 2025 MLS Cup! Let’s take a look at the team’s trademark registrations!

Congratulations to Inter Miami CF and Vancouver Whitecaps FC for advancing to the 2025 MLS CUP®. Let’s take a look at some Major League Soccer trademark registrations!

Exercise ball, Swiss ball, stability ball, fitness ball, physio ball, physical therapy ball, yoga ball, Pilates ball, gym ball, workout ball, core ball, or countless other variations. No matter what generic name you call it, you have undoubtedly encountered them at gyms around the world, including the Balance Ball brand exercise brand. Let’s take a look!

In the early 1990s, Porsche was running on fumes due to a poor economy and high production costs. The solution that save the company arrived in 1996 (as a 1997 model) as the Porsche Boxster, a modern, agile roadster priced below the 911 and aimed at a younger audience.

The design and configuration of a Porsche 911 is a protected non-traditional trademark, but did you know that the iconic sports car got its name from a trademark dispute?