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Likelihood of Confusion Blog LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®
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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Ron Coleman

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Trademarks and trademark law
Posted on February 1, 2023

Petition for certiorari in the FLANAX case

Originally posted 2016-10-20 17:38:54. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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Brand Management and Branding
Posted on January 31, 2023

Participation vacancy

Probably isn’t good enough pic.twitter.com/9rQwe0JVMm — Ron Coleman (@RonColeman) May 17, 2017 Originally posted 2017-05-18 06:36:08. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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Tweety Bird Roundups
Posted on January 30, 2023

Topical tweets

Here are some topical tweets by others of likely interest to LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION® readers that I’ve passed along to members of my Twitter social network in the last couple of weeks: @melaniejhoward: Ex-wife and…

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Ron Coleman

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pexels-photo-6266305.jpeg Counterfeiting & Piracy
Posted on January 29, 2023January 29, 2023

Ouch!

This was all over the radio today: Federal authorities arrested more than 20 people on Tuesday in what they described as a massive scheme to smuggle Chinese-manufactured counterfeit clothes and electronics into the United States….

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Ron Coleman

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Likelihood of Confusion
Posted on January 28, 2023January 31, 2023

If infringement falls in a forest….

Can there be “infringement” of a trademark without confusion? As she is so apt to do, and to do so well, Pamela Chestek asks that question in this post, entitled Infringement Without Confusion?, which is about…

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men standing near flags Free Expression
Posted on January 27, 2023January 29, 2023

Don’t Tread on "T"

Via yesterday’s Best of the Web Today, a link to story in the online edition of the Indianapolis Star reporting that Fort Wayne Community Schools officials violated a high school student’s free-speech rights when they…

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brown and black wooden chairs inside room Law Practice and Profession
Posted on January 26, 2023January 29, 2023

Not Hiring, but…

I (in my role as head of a small law firm) do get a lot of letters and emails of inquiry. It’s interesting to see what comes my way. I get a few very impressive…

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black and white ferris wheel Roundups
Posted on January 25, 2023January 29, 2023

Writing on to Blawg Review

I didn’t “go out” for law review in law school — don’t get me started — and my career has been a pretty sordid exercise since then because of it. I’m not making that mistake again. Next…

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Distribution systems
Posted on January 24, 2023

Guest Post: Fair Use or Foul Ball?

 [stextbox id=”info”] See below for more information about my colleague Greg Winsky, who is just snarky enough to merit a guest post on LIKELIHOOD OF CONCLUSION on a topic I’ve been covering — and inviting guests…

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Everything else
Posted on January 23, 2023

Happy Purim!

Tonight begins Purim – the Jewish holiday that celebrates LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION! Originally posted 2016-03-24 10:38:04. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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Ron Coleman

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high angle photo of robot Copyright Law
Posted on January 23, 2023January 24, 2023

Charles Colman: Copyright and AI

From LinkedIn. I guess if they offer an embed code, I can, you know, embed this piece by my old friend Professor Charles Colman: Is the monkey-selfie thing relevant here? I’d think so but I’m…

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Defamation
Posted on January 22, 2023

Libel lives; ethics, too

No “free speech absolutist” I, I like defamation as a cause of action when you can prove its elements, and I’m glad to see it hasn’t been completely eliminated by judges who raise the bar…

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Law Practice and Profession
Posted on January 21, 2023January 23, 2023

Linked for eternity

When 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 took notice.  I’ve had my…

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Scott Simon

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Enforcement
Posted on January 20, 2023

Best of 2011: The entrepreneurship of trademark bullying

Originally posted January 12, 2011. I figured I must have written somewhere about that PTO trademark bullying thing — or if I didn’t, I am sure I linked to someone who did — well, I…

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