Taking the catcher out of the rye
Matthew David BrozikOn July first of last year, the Honorable Deborah A. Batts, United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York (hotbed of intellectual property law jurisprudence), granted a…
1600 tweets, and whaddya get?
Ron ColemanHere’s what I’ve got the last couple of weeks, in terms of tweety things. This is as good a way to focus on and round up topical developments as any,…
Theologically misdescriptive
Talk about “scandalous and offensive” marks!: hrases containing some form of “God” have been trademarked more than 3,400 times in the United States: “God answers knee-mail” and “All God’s Children…
“Fully cooked,” like so much Boston scrod–here comes Meet the Bloggers VI!
Cribbed entirely from The TTABlog® of Beantown home-boy John “Fully cooked, yes, but still Keeping Tabs on the TTAB®” Welch: Meet the Bloggers VI, the best non-INTA event during INTA,…
Show me the money
Copyright is happening all over the place! Now, a slight digression from the stemwinder I’m about to release here on fee shifting in copyright cases. I’m going to “hook it…
No free lunch. But those prices?
“Information wants to be free.” I must have mocked those words dozens of times here. Or a few. I might be counting the times I just thought that. Either way,…
Watch that blawg!
Legal Blog Watch, uniquely qualified for the job, hosts this week’s Blawg Review!
Moral rights in Massachusetts
Lee Gesmer reported last month on a pretty important decision in copyright law: A First Circuit ruling applying the Visual Rights Act, which–well, Lee says it very well himself, actually:…
How generic is your cupcakery? Or is it CUPCAKERY™ after all?
From Ryan Gile: Is CUPCAKERY a generic term for a cupcake bakery? At first, the word “cupcakery” seems somewhat suggestive–a unique play on the words cupcake and bakery. However, with…
Patry and “The Copyright Wars”
The Copyright Clearance Center’s Beyond the Book feature just uploaded a podcast featuring Bill Patry, Senior Copyright Counsel at Google, copyright treatiste and, of course, on-again blogger. Bill talks about…
Some intel on INTEL®
BUMPED from January 1, 2010 and UPDATED due to decision (scroll to the bottom for the stunning conclusion): Had you heard about this one from Mike Masnick? Chip giant Intel…
Winging it
Legal marketing guy Lance Godard hosted Blawg Review this week with a simulated 22-tweet “interview” of 22 different lawyers. You have to click it to see what I mean. Hey,…
Forget breakfast — eBay eats Tiffany’s lunch
Something about a judge loves a fence, I guess--and not only fences like eBay.