DMCA – Dumb Management of Copyright Accusations?
Ron ColemanIdiotic DMCA takedown notices: They’re all the rage. Tim Bukher links to this item from Mike Masnick, riffing on some of the “best of” DMCA takedown notices published by Google…
Stand by me?
Does anyone write a better lead sentence in trademark blogging than Pamela Chestek?: International Importers v. International Spirits & Wines, LLC is, at bottom, a manufacturer-distributor dispute. It’s also a…
Baa, baa, Blawg Review #322
Kevin Thompson of Cyberlaw Central, at considerable risk to life and limb, does a Skull-and-Bones themed Blawg Review. As a Princeton man I have my issues with this. But as…
A long blog thread’s journey INTA night
Now: I had mentioned that the Managing IP link I provided in the first INTA post alluded to some pretty interesting fireworks involving the “empty chair” in this debate, i.e.,…
Just not that INTA it
It felt like I could write a seven-part series about all the ideas I had in my head, driving me insane, about INTA 2012. Maybe if I’d stayed up all…
Default of da system? Or, “Tally Ho!”
Via this patently entertaining post I was alerted to this somewhat more analytical one by Venkat Balasubramani, with Eric Goldman riding shotgun, decrying the $100 million default judgment entered in…
INTA and the big tent (updated)
Revised from Friday’s original post. In the previous INTA post I raised the question of how a significant session discussing a significant topic — the effect of developments in keyword…
Feed me
Note to RSS subscribers: In response to a special request from the one known RSS subscriber to LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®, I have switched on full-boat, broad-gauged feeding. Um, in other…
The dreaded dictionary
A couple of years ago I wrote this post called “the Museum of Genericization,” about a feature on the online Mirriam-Webster dictionary called the “Top Ten Words from Trademarks.” In…
Forward, INTA the past!
The International Trademark Association, or INTA (which calls itself “the I-N-T-A” on INTA TV… interesting branding choice there) is important. Most of the people and institutions involved in brands and…
Met some bloggers!
What a great evening it was at Meet the Bloggers VIII at the International Trademark Association’s annual meeting in DC! And by now, we should know. The space was perfect…
Defensive domaining
Kevin Murphy, editor of Domainincite, has a pretty interesting teaser for an analysis — subscription required (maybe he’ll shoot me one, though?) — of how the world’s biggest brands use…