Knock it off!
Ron ColemanAnd if you do, you just might make the next Counterfeit Chic “Knockoff News.” (I did!)
Is there hope along the commercial speech / free speech axis?
Evan Brown reports on a case that suggest that yes, there is. Good thing, too, considering the damage one case and one determined judge can do …
Google Patents
Search patents on Google. A paradigm shifter? Maybe. May very well be. UPDATE: Dennis Crouch explains: One problem: Google is best at finding the top-twenty references related to your search.…
BLACKJACK dilutes BLACKBERRY trademark for smartphones?
That’s what RIM, the maker of the Blackberry phone, says, according to press reports. Do we buy it — is there a likelihood of dilution (UPDATE: link added)? Well, actually,…
Evel Knievel not dead
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., tarnishment: Knievel, who is seeking…
When counterfeits are serious business
The New York Times writes about counterfeit drugs, the tragedies that follow in their wake and the reality of enforcement. Via the NCPA website.
Don’t ask me to keep your secrets
Michael Atkins reports on an interesting development that could have a real effect on certain widespread litigation practices if it were to spread: A federal District Judge denying entry of…
Defamation online
It’s our future. Instapundit rounds up developments, which Julie Hilden is all over. I’ve made my point on this topic — less a legal than a cultural observation.
Where there’s a will, there’s a Wii
No, it’s not an estate planning offer, but close. Robert Ambrogi reports about Erik J. Heels, a patent lawyer — whose law firm has actually invented the best-ever, if not…
Splendid Isolation
Summary judgment filing today. Trademark, copyright, unfair competition, tortious interference, declaratory judgment, the works. Three years in the making, two in litigation. The universe leans hard upon us on days…
IP gone bad.
He felt burned by his patent lawyer, Michael McKenna, so he went back and killed him.
Barney, Barney, is your mother from Killarney?
Speaking of ugly fights implicating extinct species, Joseph Scott Miller reports on his Fire of Genius blog — no, he’s not the only one, but he reports it real good…
The 2006 Weblog Awards: Best Law Blog
Vote here if you like that sort of thing! LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION? Ah. Yes. Well. Uh, no, we’re not nominated. But it’s an honor just to be, uh, allowed to…
Corporations and blogging seminar — U. of Philadelphia
Fox Rothschild partner and my former college-hijinx-mateBob Clothier sends along news of this event at Philadelphia University. If you’re anywhere near Philly you should consider attending, and you may want…