Lawyer Ron Coleman on brands, the Internet & free speech
@EricGoldman: Web host Akanoc hit with $32M contributory TM judgment for customers’ counterfeiting http://bit.ly/3BR6ZW Whoa. More to come … Louis Vuitton v. Akanoc jury verdict http://bit.ly/OCNwr & Aug. dismissal motion…
Here’s what you missed if you’re not yet floating in my social cloud: @VenerAbility: “The twin forces which could destroy Twitter are immature game-playing and PC taken to extremes.”http://bit.ly/Ax0rc @MegLG…
Noel Sheppard (via Insty) smells a rat: he photo sharing website Flickr removed the Obama Joker picture that was later transformed into posters showing up in cities around the country.…
A little while I ago I uploaded, at J.D. Supra, the three days of trial transcripts from last year’s desert extravaganza, the Designer Skin v. S & L Vitamins trial.…
John Welch has a report about an applicant for a SUPER HERO trademark registration for skin care productswho was bounced because, well, the owners of the existing SUPER HERO trademark…
What’s in a blog name? Eh, not so much, it seems, at least when it comes to longevity. My old friend Mark Herrmann of Drug and Device Law — who…
Here are some topical tweets by others of likely interest to LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION® readers that I’ve passed along to members of my Twitter social network in the last couple…
Truly scrumptious: Speaking again of “what’s not to love?,” check out this lede from Pamela Chestek on the topic of comestible love itself slathered with gooey IP: If you’re interested…
Way back when the Google Books issue first burst forth, I expressed considerable skepticism that their plan to scan the universe of books and put it on line could be…
Blawg Review this week is hosted by one of us (thanks for the link!) — Michael Atkins, the one and only Seattle Trademark Lawyer, whose blog engagingly still features his…
Michael Ratoza of U.S. IP LAW reports (via @BeelJDPhD) on a case that issues a somewhat stunning ruling for those of us, such as LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®, who have never…
John Berryhill writes, on the “INTA List”: Now everyone is getting in on the act… Since large scale domain tasting has largely been stopped, the way is clear for internet…
After the deposition Originally uploaded by Ron Coleman Cooling my heels.
I posted this in August, 2006. I don’t think the question has been answered yet: We wrote about the Kinderstart lawsuit against Google, claiming an unfairly depressed Google search rank,…
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