Lady calls me up…
Ron ColemanDid you ever wonder what happened in the Val Colbert declaratory judgment action against Chanel? Yeah, I forgot about it too, and evidently I was not alone. Because something did…
The Death of Brick and Mortar
Brian WallaceIt’s good to be an “Internet lawyer” — at least if you have “Internet clients.” Thankfully, I do. Here’s why it’s so good, besides the obvious reasons (i.e., invitations to…
Nothing but err
In October of 2013 I blogged here about my participation in a panel on “trademark misuse” at the annual meeting of the AIPLA, where, among other things, I got to…
Family planning
Here’s an intriguing item I picked up from the Intellectual Property News blog, which is run by Mansour & Asssociates*: Two of the world’s most well known car manufacturers are…
Stating the not-so-obvious
I have always been dubious of the value of state trademark registration. I promise to explain what I was mainly thinking. But thanks to Michael Atkins, I think it’s important…
“DUMB STARBUCKS”: Grasping at laws.
Matthew David BrozikYour blawger, he is conflicted. Part of me does not want to give the—ahem—geniuses behind the DUMB STARBUCKS stunt any more press, but the rest of me feels that you,…
You are not the boss of me!
Evan Brown reports, as he does so often, about an important ruling that deals another blow to attempts at using intellectual property, and particularly its growing penumbras in the secondary…
The tweets where you live
On the occasion, if you will, of my Twitter feed — my personal one, @roncoleman (not the blog’s one, @likely2confuse!) — being named to Law Street Media’s #300 Voices list……
Inside s©oop.
The other day, I received an email from a Registration Specialist, Literary Division at the U.S. Copyright Office. She’d written to ask me to submit again/separately the graphics incorporated in…