How to Disparage Your Own Trademark

Just ask your members to “continue calling Kirkland & Ellis and voice your opposition to their pursuing this appeal of their [trademark] harassment lawsuit against us,� provide the names and phone numbers of the lead attorneys, and then remind recipients that “these scoundrels have brought this suit to consume our time and resources. Perhaps their time and resources will be consumed as well.� What happened next in Te-Te-Ta-Ma Truth Foundation v. World Church of the Creator (7th Cir. December 13, 2004) is enough to make an I/P attorney want an unlisted telephone number.