Clinically insane?
Ron ColemanWalter Olson is seeking “reports from the field” on the subject of law school clinics: If blogging has been lighter than usual, one reason is that I’ve been racing forward…
Lug me tender
Should a law school be tendering seven figures of money to a minor league baseball team for stadium naming rights? That is certainly a novel question. I tackled the whole…
Hold the center!
John Thomas at the Pittsburgh IP Law Blog picks up on an interesting phenomenon concerning center-centric trademark registration applications: If the mark you are trying to register contains the word…
A fraud by any other name would… well…
While our intrepid brother the TTABlogger resorts to reading entrails, employing dowsing rods and attending seances in his search for the answer to “fraud on the PTO” trademark truth, the…
I tweeted this
I’ve been unusually busy doing legal work in the last few weeks–filing briefs and generally making the world safe for my clients’ righteous activities. So I have neglected this space…
Secret defrauder ring (UPDATED)
I want one, too! What is the FRAUD-O-METER™? Its creator, John Welch, explains: Some say that a picture is worth a thousand words, and that is certainly true with regard…
Creative destruction?
Sonia Katyal at Fordham Law School sent me a heads-up about an essay she co-authored, posted on the occasion of the Greensboro civil rights sit-ins, called “Celebrating Trespassers” at a…
Beverly Hills TM Lawyer
For my money that can only mean Michael N. Cohen! And now he has a blog, giving it away for free like the rest of us, called TRADEMARK BLOG OF…
Likelihood of — well, no, actually. Not.
At least in some parts of the country, LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION is something judges actually sometimes don’t find. Out there, for example. No, the other side — yeah. The left.…
Gadget goes gonzo
Updated (see below) in September, 2011: Firefly Digital explains the vision behind their, um, trademarks — including the one they claim a little outfit called Google is infringing: They embody…
Texas whiners
Speaking of sports: In Texas, as you know, everything’s mu-u-u-uch bigger. That includes NCAA-power-school IP thuggery, explains Eric Johnson, as well as the standard of what is and isn’t chump…
SUPER BOWL® time!!
I was going to skip it this year, honest. But it really does get even better, not worser. So, as I started out last year’s Super Bowl post: Every year…