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,…
Free Expression
This is an important trademarks / free speech case. I got in on an edge of it!
Andrew Cory reports on a rather unpleasant “undocumented feature” that could be cooking your goose right now: Bug 330884 – When different users on one system choose to save or not save passwords for sites,…
Blogging
How much use is fair use — i.e., permissible use — when it comes to graphics and photographs you “find” on the Internet? Not too much. As I said a while back in a chat…
A jury ordered Vonage to pay $58 million in a patent infringement case brought by Verizon. But that’s okay — Vonage already “reported a net loss of $65 million for the last quarter.” It will…
LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®
For my money that can only mean Michael N. Cohen! And now he has a blog, giving it away for free like the rest of us, called TRADEMARK BLOG OF THE TRADEMARK LAWYER’S MIND. Okay, it’s…
I picked up a link on this topic from today’s Instapundit and have now gotten a little into this constitutional law tussle on Gene Volokh’s website. I try to get in to constitutional law tussles…
Gaming
So no, you can’t just slap “GREATER TUSCON VIDEO GAME PRESERVATION SOCIETY OFFICIAL ARCHIVE” on the home page of your ROM site and call it a day. You either have to own your own, lawfully purchased copy of the game, and circumvent the copy protection to enable you to play it, or be an eligible library, archive, or museum and circumvent the copy protection to allow preservation of the game in a playable form on the premises of your library, archive, or museum
Brand Management and Branding
Ara Rubyan sends along this link to Boing Boing: Josh sez, “The folks at BMC (Black Mustang Club) automotive forum wanted to put together a calendar featuring members’ cars, and print it through CafePress. Photos…
Trademarks and trademark law
The AP reports: NASHVILLE, Tenn. Nashville-based Gibson Guitar Corporation has lost a legal battle. A federal appeals court has ruled that a competitor‘s copy of Gibson’s popular Les Paul model does not infringe on Gibson’s…
Instapundit: “This is audacious lawyering.” Best kind! Originally posted 2007-05-08 21:05:28. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Free Expression
First published July 24, 2017. I was recently, and very briefly, the toast of whatever for my efforts in making the world safe for nasty trademark registrations under the banner of the First Amendment. But…
Counterfeit Chic’s Knockoff News #57, of course! Originally posted 2010-04-13 09:52:44. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
First posted September 28, 2011. 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…
Domain Names
Venkat Balasubramani, over at Eric Goldman’s place, reports on another court suggesting that there is no such thing as contributory cybersquatting, in a case that illuminates the not-so-crazy efforts by trademark owners to find some non-moving…
“Cisco lost rights to iPhone trademark last year, experts say” — on ZDNet.com. Could explain a lot. Originally posted 2014-09-08 18:10:28. Republished by Blog Post Promoter