Ron Coleman

The new disengagement

Posted on March 29, 2020 by Ron Coleman

From Oliver Herzfeld on LinkedIn: Frankly, I think it’s brilliant. There’s more at the link. (Why doesn’t LinkedIn provide embed codes?!

LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®

Ed T and the Trademark Dimensions

Posted on March 13, 2020 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2020-01-16 10:29:38. Republished by Blog Post PromoterExplanatory introduction to a virtual guest post by Ed Timberlake: I say if it's yours and you […]

Functionality and Trademarks

Best of 2006: Starbucks — not a “preya” in Korea

Posted on March 13, 2020 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2015-01-19 17:21:07. Republished by Blog Post Promoter The Korea Times reports that perpetual trademark litigation plaintiff Starbucks has lost two in a row […]

Brand Management and Branding

More singularity: Still, er, screwed

Posted on March 13, 2020 by Ron Coleman

I thought I covered all the things, all of them!, about trademarks these days in my recent “Trademark Singularity” Part One and Part Two posts […]

Section 2(a)

Turn the other one? Or liberty? Or death?

Posted on March 11, 2020 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2014-10-06 09:52:13. Republished by Blog Post Promoter“Trademark” is not a verb. Right — we will resolve these all here and now. Key issues. […]

Rights of Publicity and Personality

Sometimes all of our thoughts are … misgiven?

Posted on March 11, 2020 by Ron Coleman

Misgiven: the wacky 9th Circuit theory of the “inverse ratio” in copyright infringement

Arnold Palmer and the Perfect Brand

Posted on March 4, 2020 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2013-11-11 10:39:03. Republished by Blog Post PromoterAs seen in the Benny Goodman case in the TTAB, celebrity, brand power and trademark rights may outlive a […]

Rights of Publicity and Personality

Gavin McInnes v. SPLC: Non-update

Posted on March 4, 2020 by Ron Coleman

I will do a little roundup. Even if the other shoe does drop even as I am writing, at least those who are unfamiliar with […]

Defamation

Confusion Dispelled

Posted on March 3, 2020 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2013-09-04 18:28:51. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Originally posted in September 2005. Minor edits made in September 2012. In the spring of […]

Everything else

The Trademark Singularity: Part 2

Posted on March 3, 2020 by Ron Coleman

If we learned anything in Tam, it is that the Register should not be an expression of value judgments. It is and should be a register (small s). Of trademarks.

Trademarks and trademark law

The Trademark Singularity: Part 1

Posted on February 20, 2020 by Ron Coleman

Well, trademark use is all the rage in trademark thinking and commentary now, and well it should be. It goes, after all, to the heart […]

Use as a Trademark

Trademark misconceptions abound

Posted on February 20, 2020 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2018-03-28 16:02:26. Republished by Blog Post PromoterEver earnest and always thinking trademarkily, friend Erik Pelton proposes “Three Misconceptions about Trademarks”: Since I began […]

Trademarks and trademark law

Release!

Posted on February 20, 2020 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2012-08-17 10:14:24. Republished by Blog Post PromoterThis week’s Blawg Review is at “Kael Garvey”‘s Legally UnBound. Released from the restrictions of middle-class propriety, this […]

Roundups

NYIPLA Amicus Brief – Booking.com

Posted on February 20, 2020 by Ron Coleman

This week, the New York Intellectual Property Law filed this amicus brief in the Booking.com case before the SCOTUS. I helped (a little). These are […]

Genericness and Trademarks