Revival of the dead
Ron ColemanJust this morning a client told me about this company, River West Brands, that finds ways to obtain some semblance of the “rights” in abandoned consumer-products trademarks and “revitalize them…
Birds gotta fly, fish gotta swim…
Originally posted 2008-07-29 12:12:10. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Liability insurers gotta deny coverage: As the Trademark Blog reports, American Guarantee & Liability Insurance Co. is balking at the prospect…
Likelihood of persuasion
Rick Hasen expresses understandable concern over a footnote in the recent Supreme Court opinion in Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker, suggesting that a certain set of studies is not worthy…
How many points is INFRINGEMENT?
We had been wondering who had the “Z.” Now the other tile drops, and probably right onto a triple word score — Hasbro, owner of the SCRABBLE trademark, has sued…
A beauty, a doll
The WSJ Law Blog reports: A federal jury in Riverside, Calif., determined Thursday that MGA Entertainment’s hugely popular Bratz dolls (pictured left) were designed while the designer worked for Barbie’s…
Imagine no religion
Guy makes a video parodying the deification of Obama Barack, and posts it on YouTube. Looks like it hit a little too close to home. After a slew of complaints…
Fake this book
Facebook is looking over its shoulder at the competition, and doing what comes naturally for succesful businesses based on a model, if not a technology, fundamentally simple to replicate: Suing…
Knockoff News is smokin’!
Susan Scafidi treats us to a hot-summer edition, volume 80 to be exact, of Knockoff News over at Counterfeit Chic!
DMCA days
Mike Masnick on a key question: Whether copyright fair use, no matter how obvious, may be ignored by a would-be copyright owner when sending a DMCA takedown notice that but…
Eat hot cross buns!
Instapundit: THE MUSIC INDUSTRY PICKED ON THE WRONG MOM.
10th Cir. on DJ’s in TM
Ron and Jane ColemanThe DeMoines firm of McKee Voorhees & Sease has a very interesting looking IP blog called Filewrapper®. Here they report on a Tenth Circuit case clarifiying the applicable standard for…
Designer Skin v. S&L continued: “S&L had a perfect right to sell this product”
Unfortunately for future defendants in the position of our client, Internet retailer S&L, U.S. District Judge James Teilborg’s decision from the bench in the District of Arizona dismissing the damages…
Grand Old Persecution
Paul Alan Levy sends this along: The latest abuse of trademark law to suppress discussion of topics of substantial public interest comes from not from a company, like most of…
Designer Skin v. S&L Vitamins trial update
The remaining issues in the case, you may recall, were copyright infringement and Arizona unfair competition. Here is the status per this morning’s minute entry in the court’s electronic case…