Secondary Trademark Infringement: Don’t wait for the movie!
Ron ColemanCritics agree: Buy the Jane Coleman and Griff Price’s Secondary Trademark Infringement from Bloomberg BNA –or you’re liable to miss the big one!
Best of 2011: “Life rights”? (Making things with life?)
First posted May 23, 2011. Pittsburgh Trademark Lawyer Daniel Corbett brings us an NBA star’s attempt at a four-point shot: Post-relationship drama takes many forms, but federal court litigation under…
Functionality in trademark and patent law
What with all the hoopla over controversial and headline-making cases, it’s tempting sometimes to forget about the need to drill and to stay up to date on the everyday craft…
B&B Hardware: Beyond Nuts and Bolts
I’d promised I’d wait on this, but I couldn’t, and you’ll see why. Here’s my take on today’s Supreme Court decision in B&B Hardware v. Hargis Industries Inc., which —…
Linked for eternity
Scott SimonWhen Goetz Fitzpatrick‘s Scott D. Simon circulated news about a new service that manages the problem of citations to hyperlinks that may or may not exist in the future, I…
Best of 2011: Poor eBay!
First posted April 27, 2011. News item: eBay Beats The Street; Revenue Up 16 Percent To $2.5B; Net Income Up 12 Percent eBay just reported first quarter earnings today posting…
Kimberlin v. National Bloggers Club 12(b)(6) Decision: A good start
If you’re following this wacky case, or even if you’re just a beginner, you will find the decision below on the defendants’ motion to dismiss the complaint under Federal Rule…
Another highly derivative blog post
We learn from our mistakes. Far better, however, is to learn from the other guy’s mistakes. Here by “our” and “other guy” I am referring to people engaged in the…
Best of 2011: Dubious assignations
First published on March 8, 2011. Steve Baird generously linked back to this LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION® post writing about the trademark status of some singer’s signature at the superb, now-two-years…
The ACLU’s strange bedfellows
Here’s some news: The American Civil Liberties Union says the Redskins are wrong, damned wrong — but they’ve got every right in the world to be that way. They even…
Best of 2011: I feel like a table-tennis ball! (Updated 2015)
First published March 3, 2011. When I saw Sergiy Sivochek’s post about the PING PONG trademark, I thought it sounded familiar — and it is! Pamela Chestek and I swatted…
More of the same, but with sanctions
This morning something — call it intuition; call it server logs — made me go back and look at what was going in with a case I blogged about in…