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Category: Parody and Satire

Trademark suit threats to shut down free speech? Shocking.

Posted on February 20, 2018 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2014-05-29 01:48:51. Republished by Blog Post PromoterKansas City infoZine News reports (link added): The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) warned the Chicago Auto Show […]

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Best of 2007: Trademark “crime”?

Posted on February 13, 2018 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2015-01-21 17:08:23. Republished by Blog Post PromoterPublished November 20, 2007. Anthony Tambourino reports this odd item: Hershey, the largest candy maker in the […]

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Parody and Satire

Litigation guy

Posted on July 14, 2017 by Ron Coleman

Seems we just get started and before you know it, comes the time we have to say, “So long.”

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Parody and Satire

It is to laugh

Posted on January 25, 2017 by Ron Coleman

In mid-December I wrote about the chuckles unintentionally provided to the Second Circuit during oral argument of the appeal by Louis Vuitton of the rejection of its […]

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Parody and Satire

Chewier than ever

Posted on December 18, 2016 by Ron Coleman

Notwithstanding my own bouts of sympathy for the blighters, you have to admit it just looks like the folks at Louis Vuitton are getting so […]

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Parody and Satire

Jew eat yet?

Posted on December 9, 2015 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2011-09-07 23:59:23. Republished by Blog Post PromoterSome people are so paranoid! (Who can blame us?) UPDATE: This Randazza slings a pretty good Yiddish. […]

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Parody and Satire
Chewy Vuitton

Ruff times for Vuitton

Posted on July 8, 2015 by Ron Coleman

IP Law Chat reports that LVMH has lost its appeal (decision here) of the “Chewy Vuitton” decision. Here’s an interesting sidelight, and one that may […]

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Best of 2007: Litigation guy

Posted on January 20, 2015 by Ron Coleman

Seems we just get started and before you know it, comes the time we have to say, “So long.”

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Parody and Satire
Moron Salt

Disclaimer for the slow-witted, the vicious and the greedy

Posted on May 23, 2014 by Ron Coleman

I have added a disclaimer to the navigation bar as the winds of oppression howl about me. It’s preposterous to think that this is really […]

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Parody and Satire

Can’t win for chewing

Posted on August 20, 2013 by Ron Coleman

Louis Vuitton Malletier loses one on parody grounds. I guess you had to be there — sounds like this is on the wrong side of […]

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Parody and Satire, Secondary Meaning

Whistle while you cringe

Posted on July 15, 2013 by Ron Coleman

Dave Wieneke asks: Can the Seven Dwarfs of Menopause not be infringement? Note that this (below) is the version up on Dave’s site.  There are […]

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Trademark “crime”?

Posted on November 20, 2007 by Ron Coleman

Anthony Tambourino reports this odd item: Hershey, the largest candy maker in the U.S., has filed suit inIndianapolis, charging a Pennsylvania apparel-maker with infringing on […]

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Evel Knievel not dead

Posted on December 13, 2006 by Ron Coleman

But the Evel One‘s hopping mad and serving papers on Kanye West, the rapper. It sounds like something in the color of trademark dilution, i.e., […]

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The Title, the Blog and the Blogger

The question of whether consumers are likely to be confused is the signal inquiry that determines if a trademark infringement claim is valid. I write here about trademark law, copyright law, brands, free speech (mostly as it relates to the Internet) and legal issues related to blogging. That may sound like a lot, but it's just a blog.

ron-coleman-lawyerAs for me, I'm Ron Coleman, a commercial litigator with a special interest in copyright and trademark law at Mandelbaum Salsburg, PC. I was also the lead lawyer for The Slants, The Band Who Must Not be Named.

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