February 5, 2010
Scott OlsonAs Super Bowl approaches, companies unaffiliated with the Colts avoid becoming victims of the NFL's strict trademark-enforcement
policies by supporting the team in generic fashion.
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January 30, 2010
Chris O'MalleyAnderson entrepreneur Pete Bitar has been slowed by litigation but still plans to spearhead a team in the competition to
put a rover on the moon.
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August 25, 2008
Anthony SchoettleContinental Enterprises, an intellectual property consulting firm, launched a service this summer to help area high schools
register their logos, names and mascots as trademarks and establish licensing programs, assuring that schools will get a cut
of all merchandise sales bearing their mark. This month, North Central High School, one of the state's largest, signed with
Continental, and six to eight more schools are expected to follow suit within 60 days.
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July 21, 2008
Peter SchnitzlerNew York Yankees first baseman Lou Gehrig died in 1941 of a disease that came to bear his name. Six years later, second baseman
Jackie Robinson famously broke through baseball's color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers, earning the league minimum $5,000.
He died in 1972. Mark Roesler believes the best earning years still lie ahead for both legendary players, as well as many
others like them. But first he must untangle their image rights in federal court in Indianapolis.
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April 7, 2008
Peter SchnitzlerMany readers would call the Indiana literary legend Kurt Vonnegut's legacy priceless. Not Mike Pellegrino. His job is to estimate
future sales of Vonnegut's work so his estate can be fairly divided today. That means Pellegrino will have to determine whether
the author's popularity is more likely to wax or to wane in the years to come.
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May 14, 2007
Cory SchoutenMarilyn Monroe, one of celebrity licensing firm CMG Worldwide's highest-grossing clients, has raked in more than $30 million
in licensing fees in the last dozen years--with roughly 25 percent of that landing in CMG coffers. But that spigot could slow
to a drip if a higher court upholds a ruling early this month by a New York federal judge.
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Can IBJ please stop referring to this property as "Kessler Mansion"? What a ridiculous title for the biggest, bloated, blight in our city. It's not a mansion. At best, it's an ideal site to shoot low-budget porn. Ahhh! Another business use!
Its stories like these that prove that a Ball State diploma is worth less than the paper that its printed on. A real institution of higher learning would have taken care of this long ago. No way should this crap be taught in a SCIENCE class.
It is such a shame that King Ballard has made Indianapolis into Chicago south with all of the rampant corruption.
How many of these 1,259 bills were actually heard and voted on on the floor vs how many were shot down in committee?
When a an arrogant young guy with essentially no experience and no qualifications for the job, was dropped into an Administrator position out of nowhere by his "mentor" in the Mayor's office things seemed fishy. Sometimes things are what they seem.