Chilled Apple
Ron ColemanVia Vodkapundit — from the People’s Ministry of Litigation, Information and Sublimation: Apple and Think Secret have settled their lawsuit, reaching an agreement that results in a positive solution for…
“The Victorian compromise”
Defamation and reputation management are issues of intense interest at LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®. Obviously cultural context means a lot when considering these two related topics. Here Daniel Solove reviews Professor…
Unchained melodies
Instapundit: WARNER BROTHERS goes copy-protection free with DRM-less MP3 downloads at Amazon. This is a good trend. A technological war of attrition can be very costly. UPDATE: But not for…
Rat on the stand
Ron ColemanOriginally posted 2007-12-28 15:46:47. Republished by Blog Post Promoter. Marty Schwimmer gets all the best stories!
Pyramid scheme
Overlawyered reports: Egypt wants to copyright pyramids, Sphinx Under the proposed law, backed by Supreme Council of Antiquities chief Zahi Hawass, persons around the world would be forbidden to sphinxbycaviglia.jpg…
How important is copyright registration?
This important (pdf). As a New York Law Journal article (sub. reqd.) puts it, The Second Circuit’s decision in In re Literary Works substantially limits the use of class actions…
My favorite infringements
Boing Boing: “Copyright infringement is your best entertainment value.” I can think of others, frankly, but fine. As long as we’re calling a spade a spade!
“I’m looking over a three-leaf clover…”
“That I overlooked,” says Bugs Bunny, “be-three!” Well, this one has not been overlooked — by anyone.
Show me the money
Just registering or making minimal use of a domain name, much less “parking” it, is not “use in commerce.” There’s got to be some… commerce! Most lawyers practicing in the…
A free market moment
Stephen Laniel finds, in trademark law, reason not to throw the whole thing over: The public-health justification for trademark law is pretty clear: if the law defends my product brand…
Not much hope for “Famous Marks” in the Empire State
The TTABlog reports that the New York Court of Appeals, on certification from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (don’t confuse those two courts of appeals!), has…
Search or destroy
The Cincinnati Enquirer reports this chilling story: A local attorney and instructor in legal studies at the University of Cincinnati’s Clermont College has been hit with a $1.3 million malpractice…
The usual stupidity
I’m Not A Trademark, Bro!: AT! admires the entrepreneurial nature of the applicants for the following marks: DON’T TASE ME, BRO! for various shirts, DON’T TAZE ME BRO! for books,…
The Nutty Ninth
Michael Atkins: The Ninth Circuit yesterday addressed the question: “whether an award of statutory damages for trademark counterfeiting under 15 U.S.C. § 1117(c) precludes an award of attorney’s fees under…