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Go Ahead, Order an Ice-Blended

Brian Doherty | 12.17.2003 12:54 PM


Trademark sanity watch: A judge throws out a suit from the Coffee Bean chain against Starbucks. The suit tried to make the claim that the java giant infringed Coffee Bean's trademark on the phrase "ice-blended" in marketing coffee drinks.

Brian Doherty is a senior editor at Reason and author of Ron Paul's Revolution: The Man and the Movement He Inspired (Broadside Books).