The question of LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION is the signal test to determine if a trademark infringement claim is valid. This blog is about trademark law, copyright law, free speech (mostly as it relates to the Internet) and legal issues related to blogging.
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The thing about lawyer jokes — besides the fact that they’re never funny when you all of a sudden have to call one of us in the middle of the night — is that they don’t necessarily have to make any sense at all to be considered worthy of publication. IP Kat, fully cognizant of the fact that no joke can survive dissection, nonetheless tries to determine the true cause of death of this one.
September 10th, 2009 at 2:35 am
Both the analysis and the comments are painful. Certainly no rerun of Benny Hill.
September 11th, 2009 at 1:19 am
Mix ‘n’ match http://bit.ly/Z4VAt #postrank #law
September 11th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
Likelihood of Confusion weighs in on Dilbert (@RonColeman) http://ow.ly/oZV8