Tony Berman is BEAT-LAW
Ron ColemanWho is BEAT-LAW? Tony — “not really Anthony” — Berman, whom I sought in vain to link to when we picked up this story about a week ago. He just…
Can’t win for chewing
Louis Vuitton Malletier loses one on parody grounds. I guess you had to be there — sounds like this is on the wrong side of parody to me. And how…
That Floyd Abrams magic, or truly scrumptuous
The arrogant New York Times loses again. The Supreme Court agrees with the Second Circuit: If there were a reporters’ privilege under the First Amendment, it still wouldn’t give you…
McDonald’s considers IP protection for anticipated move into sale of actual food
The story they’re all talking about on barely-middlebrow talk radio today: McDonalds tries to patent sandwich-making — or, rather, a sandwich-making McGuffin for its Egg McMuffin. We’re not bluffin’! This…
A new use for Google Book Search
And a whole new set of opportunities for copyright lawyers. Hat tip to Bizzy Blog.
Freedom to blawg
Blawg Review #85 is up, down under. It’s one of the most thorough and “dense” blawg reviews ever. I mean that in a good way.
Black & White World III
John Cox of the Cox & Forkum editorial cartoon team did the clever and flattering caricature that grace the top-left nav bar on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION and he did it…
Only problem is an hour later you’re short-circuiting
It hurts when the fake Chinese electronics sell better than the originals. No, I mean sometimes it really hurts.
Welcome back to winter, confusion
Now that the Macy*s Thanksgiving Day Parade ® — yes, that’s a registered trademark — has completed its mawkish coup de grâce on the warm season, perhaps in return we…
He’s one of them
An IP lawyer, that is, and the “he” is Matthew Saunders, who blogs at Legal Fixation. He knows he’s one, and that Bill Patry, the ur-copyright blogger, is one too,…
The digital dead hand
It’s an estate planning / New York bar exam joke — it has to do with something called the Rule Against Perpetuities. Yes, of course, we know that hands are…
Inevitable lawsuit by music people against MySpace
The Times gets the story down. (On topics not involving politics, regarding which the paper is hopelessly corrupt, it’s still very good.) Is clunky, social-networking-for-twenty-somethings pioneer MySpace really entitled to…
Section 230 attacks get nowhere, but forests still shrink
A court seems, according to this synopsis by Eric Goldman, to lay it out straight in dismissing a case brought in California against Craigslist. The claim was that the classified-ads…
More oozes out from the Kinderstart litigation
Eric Goldman has the transcript from the oral argument we reported on last month. He’s still betting on Google.