Best of 2011: Madden ’nuff
Ron ColemanFirst posted October 4, 2011. Here’s a guy who just may be in for some serious money! So, what magic words can resurrect a potentially multi-million-dollar copyright lawsuit from a…
Best of 2011: Sun, Oracle, Microsoft, Google, trademark, patents, copyright and David Boies
First posted September 28, 2011. There’s a lot going on, conceptually, in this article entitled “The $800M question: What’s the difference between trademark and copyright?” in VentureBeat: Ten years ago,…
Best of 2011: Infinite loop
First posted (in updated form) on September 20, 2011.(Originally published on July 22, 2011; see update at bottom!) It can only mean one thing when you read this in a…
Best of 2011: Talking the talk
First posted August 7, 2011. The Android talk, that is. Tech News World asked me a couple of days ago about whether it wasn’t pretty unusual to see parties to…
Best of 2011: Upper crust – the POCKET SANDWICHES croissants saga
First posted on July 15, 2011. Letters, we get letters. Sometimes people just want to share their trademark woes with me. Sometimes they want free advice, or cheap advice, or…
Best of 2011: Golden Nugget: Request for proposal
Originally posted July 26, 2011. I’m requesting that the Golden Nugget casino accept a proposal from me — I want to handle their cost-effectiveness-be-damned domain trademark enforcement program! Ryan Gile…
Best of 2011: Trademark do it yourself?
First posted on June 28, 2011. Aaron Franklin, co-founder of LazyMeter — an intriguing project that’s still in Beta but is not what it sounds like — writes as follows…
Best of 2011: Poor eBay!
First posted April 27, 2011.News item: eBay Beats The Street; Revenue Up 16 Percent To $2.5B; Net Income Up 12 Percent eBay just reported first quarter earnings today posting revenue…
Best of 2011: “Life rights”? (Making things with life?)
First posted May 23, 2011. Pittsburgh Trademark Lawyer Daniel Corbett brings us an NBA star’s attempt at a four-point shot: Post-relationship drama takes many forms, but federal court litigation under…
Best of 2011: Dubious assignations
First published on March 8, 2011. Steve Baird generously linked back to this LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION® post writing about the trademark status of some singer’s signature at the superb, now-two-years…
Best of 2011: Ninth Circuit. Keywords. Trademarks. Hike!
First posted on March 11, 2011. Here’s a roundup of what other people are saying about the decision in Network Automation, Inc. v. Advanced System Concepts, Inc. involving keyword advertising…
Best of 2011: The big guys
Originally posted on February 8, 2011. I try these days not to blog about blogging, but this item seemed like a good opportunity to depart from the general rule. My…
Best of 2011: The seven habits of highly annoying lawyers
First posted on February 4, 2011. Or, perhaps, the companies that hire them. Let’s see if we can find all seven in this highly effective — certainly highly earnest! —…
Best of 2011: The entrepreneurship of trademark bullying
Originally posted January 12, 2011. I figured I must have written somewhere about that PTO trademark bullying thing — or if I didn’t, I am sure I linked to someone…