Rat on the stand
Originally posted 2015-08-05 12:22:51. Republished by Blog Post PromoterOriginally posted 2007-12-28 15:46:47. Republished by Blog Post Promoter. Marty Schwimmer gets all the best stories!
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Ethics in the Media – IJE Seminar
Ethics in the Media: Fake News, Free Speech, Censorship, Libel & Slander – American Law & Talmudic Ethics
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The odd inversion of the trademark “rights in gross” conundrum (Best of 2016)
Originally posted 2016-12-23 06:29:43. Republished by Blog Post PromoterFirst posted on August 18, 2016. Is reselling domain names a violation of the UDRP? At his […]
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Bentley v. Bentley: It can’t happen here
No, the English Rule didn’t stop Bentley Motors. But at least it compensated Bentley Clothing and its lawyers for having to extend themselves in defending an unjust and unjustifiable litigation power play
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Burying 2(a) at the CIPLA
Matal v. Tam was highly influential in the subsequent Supreme Court case Iancu v. Brunetti, which also overturned the provisions of the Lanham Act prohibiting the registration of “immoral” and “scandalous” trademarks on the same grounds. Mr. Coleman will speak about both of these cases, including his experience in the Tam case, and provide his insights regarding the future of registration of these types of controversial trademarks with the USPTO.
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Copyright registration: Still not everything
The DMCA is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, of course. But easy does it with the “of courses”: Even though you need a copyright registration […]
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Originally posted 2005-03-29 16:23:00. Republished by Blog Post PromoterSurprisingly, it was Antonin the Great who said that, according to an AP Report on today’s Grokster […]
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Impaneled in Seattle
Originally posted 2017-02-16 17:14:05. Republished by Blog Post PromoterI’m here now for tomorrow’s McCarthy Institute and Microsoft Corporation Symposium, “Trademark Law and Its Challenges 2017” […]
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Judging the ABA
The ABA, like most national organizations of its kind, has evolved to serve the preferences of those at the organization’s power nodes who are at once most activist and least professional.
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Social media guidelines for lawyers from the NYSBA
You’ve heard about the new NYSBA Social Media Ethics Guidelines, right? Hear more about it at the @nyipla one-day seminar on Nov. 13th
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Designer Skin v. S&L continued: “S&L had a perfect right to sell this product”
Originally posted 2013-09-18 11:43:43. Republished by Blog Post PromoterUnfortunately for future defendants in the position of our client, Internet retailer S&L, U.S. District Judge James […]
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Head of State
Originally posted 2009-08-05 20:06:55. Republished by Blog Post PromoterSounds almost ordinary enough at first — this tweet from @EFF: Another Obama image fair use controversy: […]
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Garbagio trademarks: Top of the heap
There’s still time to register for the “Failure to Function” #trademark panel in Boston on Nov. 5th!
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Democrats seek to institute government monitoring of media
Originally posted 2014-09-16 11:24:15. Republished by Blog Post PromoterAlready giddy with the power they expect to be delivered to them today, Democrats are promising to […]
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