Scrabbled in India: Copyright no, trademark yes
Ron ColemanNo time to blog on the eve of Rosh Hashana, but we had to pass this development in the Scrabulous story on before the sun begins its descent: Mattel, which…
For copyright, a crown
Last post: Copyright ridiculous. This post: Copyright sublime. From Wired (via Jane Coleman, who found it on Instapundit): U.S. lawmakers approved the creation of a cabinet-level position of copyright czar…
A back seat for copyright
Let’s get apolitically political here (via Instapundit, Mr. Diversity himself): An informal national coalition of Internet pioneers and users with widely divergent political views will issue a letter Friday morning…
Sue this way
The AP reports (via Mrs. LOC again!) a pretty unusual intellectual property (well, let’s say abstract property) lawsuit involving bloggers. Steven Tyler, the man who made Mick Jagger’s lips look…
Social networking for… the rest of us
This, via the Avvo blog … via Facebook (not so ironically): Are you befuddled by Twitter? Not sure if you should be on Facebook? Carolyn Elefant, a noted expert on…
“Scandalousness” remains a lightning rod at the TTAB
John Welch reports on an interesting, not quite safe for home viewing case called Boston Red Sox Baseball Club Limited Partnership v. Brad Francis Sherman in which the TTAB sustained…
Freelance tips
Goyishe Kop sends along a link to this piece on legal tips for freelancers. What’s not to like?
Key shift
Google has long played fast and loose with the sale of key words, leaning this way or that but claiming to have content- or politically-neutral rules of general application. Like…
Another black eye for Starbucks
Has there ever been a more star-crossed brand maintenance campaign than that of that troubled leftover from the dot-bomb days, Starbucks? No respect in Korea… embarrassed in Africa… cross-branding eye-crossing…
Ninth Circuit: eBay not a portal to jurisdiction
We spill a lot of pixels here blogging about the question of just how transparent, nay ethereal, eBay is as, say, a facilitator of transactions premised on trademark and copyright…
A Jones for masochism
What, Jones Day doesn’t know about trademark law? Hardly thinkable. Well, maybe it doesn’t know that in the Internet age, you can’t send comically meritless cease and desist letters on…
Thelen’s accelerated schedule
Originally posted 2008-09-12 09:00:49. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Grim branding days at Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner! What do you do when you’re called Thelen Reid & Priest,…
Build American! Or hire good lawyers.
Originally posted 2008-09-11 15:37:14. Republished by Blog Post Promoter When it comes to manufacturing, it’s all about price, right? Brand management and licensing gurus Oliver Herzfeld and Richard Bergovoy beg…
Go chutzpa!
GoDaddy, better than anyone, realizes that the margins in domain sales are slim and getting slimmer. Economics teaches us that in a perfectly competitive market, there is no profit in…