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The question of whether consumers are likely to be confused is the signal inquiry that determines 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.
As for me, I'm a partner and commercial litigator at Goetz Fitzpatrick LLP in New York and, some say, "IP maven" with a special interest in copyright and trademark infringement involving the Internet--including advising clients how to avoid them. 
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It is, for what that's worth.
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It's easy it is to game almost any ranking system, not that I've tried to. As such. These are just what they are.
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Justia – Top IP Blogs
- Incorporations by Reference – Vol. 23Brief mentions of IP stories floating around in the past few weeks that might be of interest. -You now have 2 months to respond to a restriction requirement and 14 months to claim provisional and foreign priority in the US. Thanks PLTIA! [USPTO] -Briefing is complete in CLS Bank before the Supreme Court. The US Solicitor General filed an amicus […]Ryan Alley
- Nazomi Comms. v. Nokia Corp. – Claim Drafting LessonsCase No. 2013-1165 (Lourie, Dyk, Wallach) Claiming an apparatus by what it does rather than by how it is structured gets a lot of debate, especially in connection with software inventions. Yet for all the hand-wringing, not a whole lot of attention has been paid to how the Federal Circuit is (re-)molding construction jurisprudence for functional terms […]Ryan Alley
- Danisco v. Novozymes: DJ’s and pre-issuance activityDanisco US Inc. v. Novozymes A/S (Fed. Cir. 2014) 13-1214.Opinion.3-7-2014.1 Panel: Lourie (author), Prost, O’Malley On August 28, 2012, Patent No. 8,252,573 issued to Novozymes. That same day, Danisco filed a Declaratory Judgment action in federal district court seeking a judgment that its Rapid Starch Liquefaction (“RSL”) product did not infringe the sin […]Jason Rantanen
- Use of “Adapted to” in a Patent Claim Found to Mean “Made to,” “Designed to,” or “Configured to”In a recent opinion by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC), the court considered the meaning of “adapted to” claim language. In re Giannelli, No. 2013-1167 (Fed. Cir. 2014). Giannelli filed for a patent for “A row exercise machine comprising an input assembly including a first handle portion adapted to be […]The post Use of “Adapted to” […]patent20
- Candy Crush Saga Makers Rethink "Candy" Trademark ApplicationIPNews® - King. com Limited has had a change of heart with regard to its decision to seek trademark protection over "Candy". The British mobile game app maker formally requested that the application be abandoned last month. While the decision seems to indicate some sort of change in King's approach to protecting its intellectual property, it […]Mandour & Associates
- How the UN Human Rights Committee Should Apply International Law to NSA SpyingThis past Monday, the Human Rights Committee commenced its one hundredth and tenth session in Geneva from March 10-28. During this session, the Committee will review the reports of several countries on how they are implementing the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), an international human rights treaty and one of […]Katitza Rodriguez and Kimberly Carlson