False light no problem for Jews for Jesus
Ron ColemanJews for Jesus*, a litigation-happy racket that not only bases its religion business entirely on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION but for whom misrepresentation and falsehood defines its entire enterprise, has once…
Business-process patents? Maybe not.
A twelve-judge panel of the Federal Circuit has dealt the concept of business-process patents what appears to be a significant blow in In re Bilski, a case decided yesterday: “We…
Hershey keeps pushing it
And as usual, Marty’s on top of it like chocolate sauce on vanilla ice cream. Hershey’s (Hershey’s’s?) pushing of the wrapper, foil and all, is one of our regular obsessions…
Stop by Cardozo for lunch and get a tan!
Our law professor days are behind us, it appears, but we’ll be giving a presentation at the Intellectual Property Law Society at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law tomorrow…
Nomenclature matters
It matters what you call things, and how you use words. Why? Because if enough people who should know better use the word “trademark” as a verb enough times, you’ll…
He don’t lie, he don’t lie, he don’t lie…
Marc “Hussein” Randazza — who hardly needs extra stimulants in his life right this second — brings his “A-game” to this very thorough consideration of the failure of the applicant…
UK eBay seller sues buyer for negative feedback
That really takes chutzpa. But it’s an odd choice for the seller, who would seem to have acknowledged the buyer’s complaint by refunding his money. (That’s “seem” — it need…
Copyright infringement mecca?
That term, courtesy of the MBA’s Andie Schwartz (who sent the link) could apply to the whole Internet, but it seems particularly appropriate for describing this development: The elimination of…
Quote-unquote-copyright
Gordon Firemark reports on this very troubling story: Independent label Quote Unquote Records’ website was recently taken down by its web hosting provider, after the label couldn’t produce copyright registration…
Legal aspects of blogging
General practice and other non-bloggy lawyers seeking an introduction to legal aspects of blogging can now get one, along with continuing legal education credit in California, Illinois and New York,…
You bet your BIPO!
Here’s a new patent blog from J. Matthew Buchanan of BIPO. UPDATE: Never mind. No posts since last December.
Cache me if you can
Eric Goldman has good — well, somewhat mixed, but more good than not good — trademark infringement news for search engines and other Internet players that use thumbnails: This lawsuit…
Copy-resistant “Intellectual Property Colloquium”
Here’s another new way to get CLE credit from your computer: Doug Lichtman, a UCLA law professor, has put together the Intellectual Property Colloquium, a series of learned discussions about…
Looking smarter
An interesting development on the search-engine trademark infringement beat: In a weird development that looked impossible two years back, search engine giant Google Inc. last week agreed to cooperate publicly…