Law blogging: Time is of the essence. Not.
Ron ColemanHad a delightful lunch with a couple of very interesting lawyers yesterday. It would have been perfect if they hadn’t both lingered over salad nicoise while I sat there attacking…
DMCA abuse, YouTube, politics and blogs? Same old, same old (UPDATED — but still same old)
My friend Patterico has done it again — but, then again, it has been done, as I’ll remind shortly. The scoop for today? In a post about one Songhai “Sunny”…
Trademark Talk in New Yawk
New York, New York — the city so nice they had to name it twice! Always got a kick out of that. New York is many things, but “nice” is…
Trademarks, free speech and politics
Glenn Reynolds: TRADEMARK LAW SEEMS INCREASINGLY POLITICIZED. Eugene Volokh comments: “My tentative view is that the general exclusion of marks that disparage persons, institutions, beliefs, or national symbols should be…
Amazon: We’re white behind you!
Yesterday I tweeted a link from IP Watchdog to a post called “The Story of How Patents Promote Innovation.” Now, Gene Quinn loves patents, but he’s never been in denial…
Meet the Bloggers X
No, LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION® won’t be at The INTA this year and so I won’t be co-sponsoring Meet the Bloggers X. Actually, the second doesn’t necessarily follow from the first,…
Happy Monday-after-the-first-IP-Fridays®-Friday!
Yes, I know, for you every Friday is IP Friday. But last Friday was special: It was the debut of the new IP Fridays® podcast by Rolf Claessen (of IP…
“Aereo” smiths (part two)
In part one of this post I laid out the following propositions: (a) We operate in a common-law system, so want and expect judges to apply the law to new…
“Aereo” smiths (part one)
UPDATE, June 25, 2014: The Supreme Court has ruled. If you are a real IP lawyer, or have a TV, or read this blog, you probably already know what Aereo…