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Picture this

Posted on October 13, 2019 by Ron Coleman

So, it was a bad week for LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION (the blog). It's getting harder to be your own webmaster on any kind of customized […]

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Scientology pushed back on copyright

Posted on September 20, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Scientology seems to do a lot better with the Internal Revenue Code than with the Copyright Act: A Colorado nonprofit group has won a critical […]

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TTAB re THE SLANTS trademark: Once disparaging, always disparaging

Posted on September 20, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Remember the SLANTS trademark appeal to the TTAB? Here’s the decision (below). For the TTAB, there’s only one answer to the “disparaging” question — well, […]

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Disparaging, Immoral, Deceptive, or Scandalous

Away With Words

Posted on September 20, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Away With Words is a blog that has brought itself to my attention and LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION to its blogroll. In true logrolling fashion, we […]

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We’ve got a bigger problem now

Posted on September 20, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Orwell Estate Sends Copyright Takedown Over the Number “1984” – TorrentFreak https://t.co/eKgwHmhXmf — TrademarkBlog (@TrademarkBlog) October 27, 2015 It’s like something out of 1984! Where […]

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IP Overreaching

Digg this

Posted on September 20, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Encryption key Dugg. UPDATE: Here’s more, from no less than Ed Felten (via Instapundit). If you need a program to follow what the heck’s going […]

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IP Overreaching

Participation vacancy

Posted on September 20, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Probably isn’t good enough pic.twitter.com/9rQwe0JVMm — Ron Coleman (@RonColeman) May 17, 2017 Originally posted 2017-05-18 06:36:08. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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Brand Management and Branding

De gustibus non est disputandum

Posted on September 20, 2019 by Ron Coleman

The question, per last fall’s story, was this: Can you establish trademark rights in a flavor? The court said, unsurprisingly, “no.” As usual, I let […]

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Functionality and Trademarks

Best of 2014: Consensus in Cleveland

Posted on September 20, 2019 by Ron Coleman

First posted on March 12, 2014. Far be it from me to compare myself to the distinguished former Chief Judge of the Federal Circuit, the […]

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IP Institutions

Update on speech regulation

Posted on September 20, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Wired News reports: The Federal Election Commission proposed new rules Friday that would leave almost all internet political activity unregulated. The proposal would, however, require […]

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Government

“I’m a man”

Posted on September 20, 2019 by Ron Coleman

And perhaps a Brawnier one than you might otherwise have thought, at that. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. No, not me — you […]

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Trademarks and trademark law

Webinar on 30(b)(6) depositions – December 8, 2015

Posted on September 20, 2019 by Ron Coleman

It’s not all fun and games, you know. Next week, I’ll be online along with distinguished practitioner Charles H. Allen presenting a Strafford webinar revealing some of the strange and […]

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Law Practice and Profession

Likelihood of jurisdiction (UPDATED and bumped)

Posted on September 20, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Appellate courts, we see, choose what interests them, and how much. Sometimes they surprise the parties and their counsel. We weren’t all that shocked about […]

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Free Expression