Originally posted 2008-01-30 12:18:36. Republished by Blog Post PromoterJohn Berryhill: A recurring discussion within certain circles over the years has been the potential assignment of single character domain names in the generic top-level domains (gTLDs). Prior to the formation of ICANN, and despite assignment of a few single character domain names (q.com, x.com, z.com, i.net, […]
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Originally posted 2009-06-01 13:42:36. Republished by Blog Post PromoterRemember the lawsuit pitting the Naked Cowboy against the Mars candy people? Well, the Cowboy rides again — out in the direction of that sunset into which he rode (bareback), in fact, filing suit against Clear Channel, alleging that one of their radio stations misappropriated his mark. […]
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Originally posted 2014-09-05 10:55:50. Republished by Blog Post PromoterCongratulations to this year’s ABA Journal’s “Blawg 100” scientific reckoning of the top IP law blogs: IPWATCHDOG Gene Quinn’s IPWatchdog is on the trail of the latest intellectual property law news and policy developments. Posts by the Leesburg, Va., patent attorney not only alert readers to what’s […]
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Originally posted 2005-11-11 11:11:46. Republished by Blog Post Promoter“Everyone knows” how stupid intelligent design is. Therefore, it’s a really bad thing to publish a peer-reviewed article by a proponent of the theory, right? At least it is at the Smithsonian — according to NPR, and according to the government’s Office of Special Counsel. Thanks to […]
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Originally posted 2014-01-03 09:48:55. Republished by Blog Post PromoterCatchphrases such as THREE-PEAT with no coherent secondary meaning and no meaningful trademark identity are one of the really galling misuses of trademarks these days. Nick Daly sends along this story (link added): Lionsgate Film Studio has sued 15 companies for allegedly selling their merchandise featuring its […]
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Originally posted 2014-04-09 07:50:27. Republished by Blog Post PromoterEvan Schaeffer hosts this week’s Blawg Review #38 and credits Likelihood of Confusion for going light on the cliches. All’s well that ends well!
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Originally posted 2011-07-07 20:39:25. Republished by Blog Post PromoterTill then, though, Yoko Ono is out there. UPDATE from Bill Patry (I added an explanatory link): John Lennon’s song “Imagine” is world famous, and I confess to both liking and disliking it . . . His widow, Yoko Ono, is a vigilant even enthusiastic protector of […]
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Originally posted 2014-12-03 12:54:52. Republished by Blog Post PromoterEric Goldman: A Colorado judge has reached the remarkable conclusion that a hospital publicizing its star ratings and other recognition from a third party rating service in its marketing material might be committing copyright and trademark infringement. This is a little like saying that it could be […]
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Originally posted 2011-12-20 08:35:56. Republished by Blog Post PromoterOriginally posted on February 8, 2011. I try these days not to blog about blogging, but this item seemed like a good opportunity to depart from the general rule. My friend Ray Dowd of Copyright Litigation Blog fame has caught a little attention with this post listing […]
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Originally posted 2008-02-05 12:06:39. Republished by Blog Post PromoterImplicating, of course, real money. Hat tip to Stacia Lay.
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Originally posted 2006-03-24 13:01:49. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Diversity of opinion has long been a one-way street in New Haven. (Via Instapundit.) UPDATE: Everything’s different for girls at Yale. But that’s what we had always heard.
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Originally posted 2015-01-30 12:02:45. Republished by Blog Post PromoterI contributed a chapter called “How Trademark Protection Intersects with the Athlete’s Right of Publicity” in a new book called In the Arena: A Sports Law Handbook. Its publication, in true bar association fashion, was secretly announced last week. Seeing, however, as how someone named “Packing Slip” sent me […]
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Originally posted 2015-07-01 14:16:55. Republished by Blog Post PromoterThe Trademark Troll, a blog written by former Harley Davidson IP counsel Dick Troll, comments on the S&L Vitamins case: Almost every case involving the sale of unauthorized but genuine goods is a case where a brand owner is asking the courts to become an enforcer for […]
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Originally posted 2014-02-18 16:51:48. Republished by Blog Post Promoter It’s been an open question for a while whether there’s much value in law reviews any more as sources of leading-edge, original or any other kind of legal thinking. Self-publishing, i.e., the Internet, is wounding them deeply. I used to publish articles, not to law reviews […]
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Originally posted 2014-04-22 21:57:08. Republished by Blog Post Promoter[stextbox id=”info”] This post is the first by a new guest contributor, Utah IP lawyer Nicholas Wells, who also blogs on IP here. I first blogged about the tiff between Google and “the writers” and the “the publishers” over the Google Books Library Project a long time ago, […]
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Originally posted 2013-05-09 14:32:25. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Mack Reed puts his finger on it — almost — in the Online Journalism Review: The Web has made unauthorized propagation of information — whether copyrighted or not — instantaneous and virtually irreversible. Videos are uploaded, downloaded and re-uploaded under different authors’ names: YouTube users know […]
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Originally posted 2006-03-26 22:16:21. Republished by Blog Post PromoterWired News reports: The Federal Election Commission proposed new rules Friday that would leave almost all internet political activity unregulated. The proposal would, however, require paid advertisements for federal candidates on the internet to be paid for with money regulated by federal campaign law. We’ve addressed this […]
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Originally posted 2008-11-11 23:23:02. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Remember the Google book-scan lawsuit? No, we hadn’t either; we hardly even remember books. But thanks to Jaded Topaz we’re reminded, as she sends along word that it’s been settled: Here’s what happened: Yesterday, in what some say is the biggest book deal in U.S. history, […]
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Originally posted 2014-01-03 14:56:03. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Move over, Mike Atkins. You can post pictures of yourself hanging around with handsome and famous trademark lawyers all you want, but there’s evidently room for a lot of high quality IP blogging in the Pacific Northwest: A hearty “Welcome to the club, Lucy!” to Stacia […]
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Originally posted 2009-10-12 20:59:00. Republished by Blog Post PromoterDid you ever wonder just how effective holograms are as an anti-counterfeiting device? When they first came out in the 1980’s, we were all impressed. It was like “Star Wars” on our credit cards. But over the years as we’ve gotten used to them, I am sure […]
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