The super bowl of SUPER BOWL®s
Ron ColemanI used to have the Super Bowl® trademark gig all to myself. The last post I did was in 2015, when I chided Consumer Reports for (rather irresponsibly, considering it’s…
Register now for the Federal Bar Association Fashion Law Conference 2018
Last year the Fashion Law fest of the Federal Bar Association was a blast. This year it will be a different blast but every bit as full of blasty goodness!…
Guest post: Ornamental? Or trademark as a product?
Tyler HallThe Twitter thread that led to this blog post started when trademark lawyer Tyler Hall suggested, on Twitter, that a story reporting “bootleg logos are a fashion must-have” tells us…
Erik Pelton tracks trademark trends
My friend Erik Pelton reviewed the big news in trademarks during 2017 in this post from the first week in January. Highlights, compressed by me — save for the one…
Reforming Little Copyright
It’s pretty clear that Big Copyright — famous authors, Hollywood and, well, Hollywood Hollywood and Hollywood — gets what it wants from both Congress and the courts in terms of…
Decline and fall of the dumb copyright trick (Best of 2017)
First published on November 13, 2017. One of the dumbest things people — overlawyered, and, sadly, mainly professionally-licensed people — have tried to do to avoid negative online reviews is…
Failure to …. whatever (Best of 2017)
Originally posted on Oct 16, 2017.“Failure to function as a trademark” is a favorite topic around here, and it’s getting more and more attention. Except when it’s not. What am…
When Dot Com really can make a trademark (Best of 2017)
Originally posted on September 8, 2017.In an important new ruling, Booking.com B.V. v. Matal, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia — on an appeal from the…