Cyber… what?
“Cyberproperty”? A dubious concept, the dubiousness now analyzed and developed theoretically in this article by Michael Carrier and Greg Lastowka, via Marty Schwimmer. Originally posted... Read more
Author: Ron Coleman
Best of 2006: Side by side comparison doesn’t decide likelihood of confusion
Originally posted on July 11, 2006. This is an important decision: The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has partially reversed the earlier ruling of the... Read more
eBay wins Tiffany case
Reuters reports that Tiffany’s gamble has not paid off: EBay Inc scored a major legal victory on Monday, when a federal judge ruled that Tiffany... Read more
DC Circuit: Press Not Shielded
Another red hot AP story: The Circuit Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has ruled that Time magazine’s Matthew Cooper and The New York... Read more
Booking.com and genericness
[stextbox id=”info” caption=”Joel MacMull of Mandelbaum Salsburg” image=”https://www.likelihoodofconfusion.com/wp-content/uploads/Joel-MacMull-e1575392890760.png”]My partner Joel MacMull and I have spent a lot of time thinking, speaking about and litigating the... Read more
Moral rights in Massachusetts
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... Read more
Exclusively ours
The issue of resales or other “unauthorized distribution” is one that I have been writing about forever here. Julie Zerbo takes us into the future... Read more
A basket of Lee v. Tam briefs
I was going to do a post collecting all the briefs filed in the United States Supreme Court in Lee v. Tam (“THE SLANTS”), but... Read more
Best of 2013: WORLD TRADE CENTER naming rights and municipal IP policy – What rights?
“Best of” posts will continue until next week. This was originally posted on September 9, 2013. The big story today, as One World Trade Center... Read more
Forward, INTA the past!
The International Trademark Association, or INTA (which calls itself “the I-N-T-A” on INTA TV… interesting branding choice there) is important. Most of the people and... Read more
There must be some kind of way out of here
But mediation isn’t it — in the Jimi Hendrix vodka case, that is, which Mike Atkins has been all over since last year, as we... Read more
Hot fun in the summer time
A little while I ago I uploaded, at J.D. Supra, the three days of trial transcripts from last year’s desert extravaganza, the Designer Skin v.... Read more
GEICO Isn’t Good News for Google
Remember the GEICO v. Google case? My former law partner and long-time spouse Jane Coleman does. She’s writing a chapter on secondary trademark infringement liability for... Read more
How Tweet it is
A little topical tweeting music from the last few weeks via @roncoleman: @VBalasubramani: State of Israel buys @Israel Twitter acct from Isr. Melendez (porn pdxr)... Read more