Lawyer Ron Coleman on brands, the Internet & free speech
LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®
As I have written so many times, what used to qualify as a “short post” back when the edgiest form of social media was blogging is now just… a tweet. And long posts? Come on,…
Free Expression
This is an important trademarks / free speech case. I got in on an edge of it!
Domain Names
We’re a little obsessed here with the rights of “unauthorized” resellers to use the trademarks that describe the stuff they’re reselling. So this UK domain name decision strikes us as extra-interesting (a link added): Pressure…
Roundups
Counterfeit Chic’s Knockoff News #63 — a magic number for us end-of-the-boom-ers. At least it is for me. Originally posted 2012-12-31 08:30:05. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Blawg Review #279 is up at Mirriam Seddiq’s Not Guilty blog. It’s not safe for work. Unless you work in a law office. Home… that’s something else. Originally posted 2011-12-31 18:11:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Humor
The Tata Group put out this press release about a trademark decision that some people seem to think is funny. It is evidently connected with this WIPO decision. Likelihood of Confusion doesn’t get it. No…
Everything else
Last spring, I got a comment on the blog from a gentleman named Bunker Mulligan. I don’t get a lot of comments, which isn’t surprising; our content is so mind-numbing that few of our innumerable…
Free Expression
Out of respect for the Passover holiday, which ends next Tuesday night, I am not blogging as such. But to keep the pot boiling, I will share a topical decision issued today by the Southern…
Costumes and Clothing
Via Techlaw Advisor [UPDATE: shuttered], a link to a very smart copyright blog from a member of the firm that cleaned my clock in 1998. The item by Bill Patry, Clothing and Costumes Redux, is…
And if you do, you just might make the next Counterfeit Chic “Knockoff News.” (I did!) Originally posted 2012-01-30 15:50:24. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Roundups
Blawg Review this week is hosted by one of us (thanks for the link!) — Michael Atkins, the one and only Seattle Trademark Lawyer, whose blog engagingly still features his high-school yearbook picture. As I’ve…
Copyright Law
@ZviSRosen: t may be time to reasses the relationship of copyright law to the physical object – here the master tape. Copyright in audio and video is fundamentally different from traditional copyright – the only real analog I can think of is a painting
DMCA
Lee Gesmer at MassLawBlog explains why the hullaballoo about YouTube’s exposure to copyright liability is overstated. I agree with his analysis and have lots of other little thoughts about it, and you’d have read them…
Social Media
If any of part of the opinion in Netchoice decision (full opinion here) sounds familiar, well, it should.
Politics
Bloomberg News reports that “my generation”‘s President is every bit as thoroughly modern as you’d expect. In other words, no unauthorized drawing down of his icon-equity will be permitted: Yes you can, Brad! Oops, sorry. …
Likelihood of Confusion
I try to tread lightly with respect to blogging about cases I’m involved with, but there’s not much question that the December 13, 2011 Eastern District of New York opinion in Ascentive, LLC v. Opinion Corp., 2011…