Lawyer Ron Coleman on brands, the Internet & free speech
LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®
As I have written so many times, what used to qualify as a “short post” back when the edgiest form of social media was blogging is now just… a tweet. And long posts? Come on,…
Copyright Law
CNET News.com reports: U.S. District Judge Sam Lindsay in the northern district of Texas granted a preliminary injunction against Robert Davis, who operated Supercrosslive.com and had been providing direct links to the live audiocasts of…
Copyright Law
From Variety and really, all over your Internets: The VidAngel filtering service will remain shut down, following a ruling Thursday from a three-judge panel upholding an injunction against the service. VidAngel was forced to shutter its service in…
Zorro first appeared in 1919. Naturally, Sony claims it owns him. (Is this a Sony company?) A little filmmaking outfit called Sobini begs to differ and is asking a judge to endorse its view. I…
Brand Management and Branding
Media Week reports that a company called SparkNet Communications sued a rival broadcasting outfit in May for infringing its trademark on stations in St. Louis, Phoenix, Chicago and San Francisco utilizing the “trademark” slogan PLAYING…
Blogging jumps the shark. Again. Originally posted 2006-06-11 10:33:44. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Law Practice and Profession
John (Keeping Tabs on the TTAB®) Welch reports on the unsurprising conclusion that sarcasm doesn’t work better at the Trademark Trial and Appeals Board than at any other appellate panel. Not that it isn’t tempting….
Copyright Law
There’s a lot going on, conceptually, in this article entitled “The $800M question: What’s the difference between trademark and copyright?” in VentureBeat: Ten years ago, when Sun sued Microsoft over Java, Sun alleged trademark infringement…
Enforcement
If there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s a blog post so well developed that I can’t rephrase it, riff on it or summarize it, so I have to steal it lock, stock and barrel….
“Andrew Sullivan of Instapundit”? Guys, whichever of you calls me first gets to retain me. UPDATE: Is insanity a plea in a trademark infringement case? Originally posted 2007-05-09 17:31:23. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Blawg Review #15 will blow your mind. Man. Originally posted 2011-10-04 18:43:02. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Copyright Law
Reuters “news service” reports that the Authors Guild and a number of American writers are suing Google Inc. in federal District Court in New York City, “alleging that the Web search leader’s bid to digitize…
IP Institutions
Nice event last night at “Meet the Bloggers VII” otherwise not in the least bit known as the “IP Law BlogFestivus.” You may want to check out the resultant IP Law BlogDex thingy too. Good people, I’m…
Copyright Law
Lee Gesmer reported last month on a pretty important decision in copyright law: A First Circuit ruling applying the Visual Rights Act, which–well, Lee says it very well himself, actually: Mass MoCA is the Massachusetts…
