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Posted on August 10, 2022November 24, 2022

Tweets are microblogging.

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,…

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Free Expression
Posted on June 24, 2022September 25, 2022

Amicus Brief filed in Vans v. MSCHF

This is an important trademarks / free speech case. I got in on an edge of it!

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Keyword Advertising
Posted on September 28, 2023

Best of 2011: Ninth Circuit. Keywords. Trademarks. Hike!

First posted on March 11, 2011. Here’s a roundup of what other people are saying about the decision in Network Automation, Inc. v. Advanced System Concepts, Inc. involving keyword advertising using other folks’ trademarks (a…

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Litigation
Posted on September 27, 2023

It’s not about you

Fact is, trademark law, judges — much less justices — are not all much into you.

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Trademarks and trademark law
Posted on September 26, 2023

Two famous IP questions answered in one lawsuit

Anton Hopen reports that GM won an important verdict in a trademark case involving a toy Hummer. The jury awarded over a million and a half dollars for the infringement of GM’s trademark on the…

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Fashion Law
Posted on September 25, 2023

COICA: Big IP supersizes it

Everything I’ve written about here for the last five years, or just about everything, is about to get a lot worse, explains David Post: Congress is set to once again consider the Sen Leahy’s Combating…

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Private Brands and Trademarks
Posted on September 24, 2023

Best of 2013: WAL-ZYR versus ZYRTEC: Allergic to legislating trademark law?

First published February 14, 2013. I have no problem using the TTABlog for a blog launching point every week. Why would I when I can riff on a post such as this one, about an…

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Posted on September 23, 2023

Forum selection trap doesn’t work for AOL

Forum selection clauses are the contract-drafter’s torture of choice. They often guarantee a win for the side with the power to select where suit must take place — usually not where the other side can…

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Copyright Law
Posted on September 22, 2023

They always get their man

Yes, people do have some funny ideas of what kinds of things to protect with copyright, don’t they?   A few years ago, criminal enterprise Milberg Weiss (in its pre-conviction days) tried to assert copyright…

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Posted on September 21, 2023

No more Star Chamber opinions

Legal Times reports: The Supreme Court on Wednesday adopted a historic rule change that will allow lawyers to cite so-called unpublished opinions in federal courts starting next year. The new rule takes effect unless Congress…

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College Belushi Brand Management and Branding
Posted on September 20, 2023

Trademark colors bleed

BrandWeek reports that universities are having success suing companies that make fan paraphernalia that don’t actually use team trademarks but do use slogans, colors and other devices that conjure up the trademarks: The schools successfully…

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Brand Management and Branding
Posted on September 19, 2023

Best of LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®: Nuts to us? Or a “real” Charlie Brown Christmas? (Archive post)

Originally published December 9, 2009. Now a heartwarming tradition of bloggy goodness. Instapundit links to this item about the incredible shrinking Charlie Brown specials — warmly-remembered favorite scenes from the annual Peanut broadcasts being incrementally…

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Blogging
Posted on September 18, 2023

Where there’s a will, there’s a Wii

No, it’s not an estate planning offer, but close. Robert Ambrogi reports about Erik J. Heels, a patent lawyer — whose law firm has actually invented the best-ever, if not the only, useful, pleasing and amusing…

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Posted on September 17, 2023

The deputy PTO Director

At the Volokh Conspiracy there’s a good discussion on the lawsuit you read about over at Marty’s. It seeks, as you recall, to oust Margaret J.A. Peterlin from her position as Under Secretary of Commerce…

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Posted on September 16, 2023

A Stitch in Time Saves Nine

Evan Schaeffer hosts this week’s Blawg Review #38 and credits Likelihood of Confusion for going light on the cliches. All’s well that ends well! Originally posted 2014-04-09 07:50:27. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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Brand Management and Branding
Posted on September 15, 2023

More, more, Moore!

One of my favorite ever topics here on LOC has been the litigation brought by the University of Alabama against painter Daniel Moore for unauthorized artistic depiction of trademarks.  As I reported last November, after…

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