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Lawyer Ron Coleman on brands, the Internet & free speech

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    • Prudential Standing: Who is ‘Any Person’ Under the Lanham Act?
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Law Practice and Profession

Name that geek

Ron Coleman Dec 6, 2006 2 Comments

Dennis Crouch of the Patently-O blog did a cool little experiment. A professor of law at Boston University and a practicing patent lawyer, he’d be the first to admit this…

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Laugh a little!

Ron Coleman Dec 6, 2006 0 Comments

I’m doing a mini-roundup of some of my blogroll friends, because I can. Looking for some of the odder entries of the week. Keeping the networking fresh. Writing, in other…

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From the fire into the frying pan: Blawg Review #86

Ron Coleman Dec 5, 2006 0 Comments

Infamy or Praise, which treated us to an infernal Blawg Review a while back, lightens up a bit.

Roundups

Knockoff News Forty-Two

Ron Coleman Dec 4, 2006 0 Comments

Check it out, bub.

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A virtual certainty

Ron Coleman Dec 4, 2006 1 Comments

CNET argues that IRS taxation of online game “virtual assets” is inevitable. The obvious corollary is that online death is inevitable, too. Hopefully it is only inevitable for people with…

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New blog in new bottles

Ron Coleman Dec 1, 2006 0 Comments

Michael Atkins debuts his Seattle Trademark Lawyer blog with a nice post about a ruling denying insurance coverage to a retailer that has to go into its pocket to destroy…

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