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Tagged with: Creative Naming, food naming, naming consultants, Naming resources, trademarking, Transportation
Posted in Branding, Consumer Goods, Food Names, Name Origins, Naming Education, People Names, Trademarks, Transportation
Posted in Branding, Consumer Goods, Food Names, Name Origins, Naming Education, People Names, Trademarks, Transportation
Family brand name quiz – while you eat and drive
While putting together a previous post (“Nomen Est Omen?” Uh, Not Always…) I got to thinking about both family and given names that are now well-known brands. There are enough quirky examples and stories that I thought I’d put together…
Tagged with: Transportation
Posted in Branding, Consumer Goods, Food Names, Name Origins, People Names, Trademarks, Transportation
Posted in Branding, Consumer Goods, Food Names, Name Origins, People Names, Trademarks, Transportation
What’s in a classical musical name?
I do enjoy seeing articles about naming, as long as it is not YASOI (Yet Another Set Of Initials). Today I had the pleasure of seeing such an article as I pulled up my favorite classical radio station KDFC on…
Lyrica is a very musical name
If you are someone like me in marketing who actually listens to the names mentioned in advertisements, then there comes a point when you wonder why so many pharma and health and beauty products have such strange names. Yes I…
Loews vs Lowes vs Lows
The last time I was in the property fixup business, my favorite local store was Home Depot. My kids even christened it “Daddy’s Toy Store” because I was there almost every weekend loading up lumber and paint and whatever. At…
Mooboo – The Best Bubble Tea for You
“MooBoo Bubble Tea” has been hitting the headlines lately but not as a great product name. Instead there are the controversial issues regarding alleged unpaid hours issues (thankfully now resolved legally.) I wonder whether this burst the bubble of MooBoo…
Tagged with: naming dinks
Posted in Branding, Consumer Goods, Domain Names, Food Names, Name Origins, Naming Education, Rotten Names, Trademarks
Posted in Branding, Consumer Goods, Domain Names, Food Names, Name Origins, Naming Education, Rotten Names, Trademarks
TranQuini relaxes you just by the name
Born in the beautiful high Alps and rivers of Austria, TranQuini® epitomizes the image of relief you look for in a refreshing, revitalizing and calming drink. Even their tagline Positively Relaxed is prominent on all their packaging to help drive…
Who owns that consumer brand?
Recently there have been another spate of questions on Quora and other online forums about product brand vs company brand, especially from new marketeers or entrepreneurs wrestling with these issues. Admittedly it is different in small startups from the big…
Tagged with: Creative Naming, food naming, naming ideation
Posted in Branding, Consumer Goods, Food Names, Naming Education, Naming News, Trademarks
Posted in Branding, Consumer Goods, Food Names, Naming Education, Naming News, Trademarks
Even AARP supports trademarking
In a recent article, AARP News wrote about elderly people still having time to come up with million dollar inventions. And yes, of course, they talked about patents – and often how unlikely that would be. But in a sidebar…
Why you need to register your trademark
A lawyer once made it very clear to me. He said if you ever have a dispute over a name, and you end up in court, then the party with the registered trademark stands up and says: “Judge, I have…
Tagged with: domain protection, trademarking
Posted in Biotech Naming, Branding, Industrial Products Naming, Name Origins, Naming Education, Naming News, Naming Resources, Technology Names, Trademarks
Posted in Biotech Naming, Branding, Industrial Products Naming, Name Origins, Naming Education, Naming News, Naming Resources, Technology Names, Trademarks
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