Patents & Trademarks

Hair-Raising Stories: the Bear, the Coconut & the Oil Well

Part 2 of 3: THE COCONUT I remember my mom taking me to the bear cage at Buttonwood Zoo when I was a little kid. I could smell the...

The Big Green Bottle, Full of Miracles & Tragedy

In the early 1880s, Jacob Welch had accomplished having the biggest furniture store in Lynn, Massachusetts, and he felt he could achieve...

The Gift

One Father’s Day, a little over 30 years ago, my wife and children presented me with a gift that has ever since been dear to me. They had...

A Big Story from a Small Bottle

Several years ago, I went to the illustrious Baltimore Bottle Show. Traveling from Texas to Maryland for a long weekend cost me several...

Trademarks: Playing Possum?

It was one of the earliest trademarks registered in the United States - Number 247 - and the very first for a business in Lynn,...

Trademarks: Love in a Bottle

As America moved closer to the end of the 19th century, more and more products loaded store shelves and newspaper pages. Competition for...