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Law Practice and Profession

The law school crackup

Ron Coleman Nov 29, 2012 2 Comments

I haven’t written a super whole bunch about the question of attending law school here lately, but I have written. But then there’s what Elie Mystal has written at Above…

Blogging

There are good IP blogs too!

Ron Coleman Nov 28, 2012 0 Comments

Congratulations to this year’s ABA Journal’s “Blawg 100” scientific reckoning of the top IP law blogs: IPWATCHDOG Gene Quinn’s IPWatchdog is on the trail of the latest intellectual property law…

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A Thanksgiving Bleg

Ron Coleman Nov 22, 2012 0 Comments

The Mesivta of Long Beach New York was devastated by Hurricane Sandy. (A “mesivta” is a type of boys’ yeshiva (rabbinical) high school; “MLB” also has a secondary studies program.)…

IP Overreaching

A Republican feint on copyright?

Ron Coleman Nov 20, 2012 2 Comments

I tried, and perhaps had some success, in making the point right before the election that there were political — as in policy, and as in electoral — questions involving…

Gripe and Review Sites

The unbearable dumbness of threatening

Ron Coleman Nov 16, 2012 1 Comments

I’ve made a career here of tut-tutting the impolitic and brand-negating utterance of baseless cease and desist and other threatening letters based on IP infringement, including this recent post about…

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TTABlog: Eight years of keeping tabs on the TTAB

Ron Coleman Nov 13, 2012 0 Comments

Busy as we were last week licking our wounds from the aftermath of really bad weather, I missed the opportunity to wish a timely mazal tov to John “@TTABlog” Welch…

Rights of Publicity and Personality

Oh, yeah, Blue Ivy baby thing

Ron Coleman Nov 12, 2012 0 Comments

As Lara Pearson puts it: For the past 3 days my in-box has been lighting up at a blistering pace with news alerts about every trademark attorney’s favorite celebrity infant…

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Search for resolution

Ron Coleman Nov 7, 2012 0 Comments

It’s two posts in one (I like to pull that off when I can), not even counting this one: Mike Masnick on Eric Goldman on the settlement of the Google…

The question of whether consumers are likely to be confused is the signal inquiry that determines if a trademark infringement claim is valid. I write here about trademark law, copyright law, brands, free speech (mostly as it relates to the Internet and social media). That may sound like a lot, but it's just a blog.

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