Val Colbert: Who’s got the button?
Ron ColemanA great all-around IP question is raised by Marty Schwimmer. Here’s an interesting fact pattern. Who is the source of the jewelry pictured above? This jeweler. Jewelry companies purchase luxury…
Grande, Venti, De Novo. (Starbucks VI)
Matthew David BrozikLast week, while one giant was vindicated after years of litigation—even if its name was spelled “Goggle” on page 2 of Judge Chin’s decision—another was dealt a decisive, possibly final…
One publisher’s take on the Google Books decision
Sanford Gray ThatcherThe following appeared in an alumni email discussion list of which I happen to be administrator. It’s a list for Princeton alumni in the legal profession, which would include Judge…
Authors Guild v. Google: Judge Chin’s decision in favor of Google Books
Anyone looking for the Author’s Guild v. Google decision on the Southern District of New York website is going to have a hard time: It’s working like the Obamacare website…
“Happy Birthday”: Second verse, same as the first.
While I wasn’t looking, the lead plaintiff in the class action to have the song “Happy Birthday to You” declared to be in the public domain (1) in late July,…
Arnold Palmer and the Perfect Brand
This post is based in part on part of my contribution on trademark law and the right of publicity in the New York State Bar Association publication, In the Arena.…
uFaker: Fun and crowdsourcing for anticounterfeiting
I first encountered the uFaker people at this year’s annual The INTA meeting in whatever city it was, and I was so impressed that I told them I would blog…
Blawg Review #325.10
Welcome to Blawg Review #325 — 325-and-a-tenth, to be exact. Presumably you got here from here. So it is, so it is. Let’s review. Dennis Crouch, of the ancient and…