New “knockoff news,” TM prosecution blog
Rob Holmes, anti-counterfeiting investigator to the stars, has revamped and retooled his blog — check out his Knockoff Report: News & Views in the World... Read more
Author: Ron Coleman
For Sale: Cabbage Patch Dolls, Pet Rocks
Originally posted 2005-01-04 11:01:11. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Aha! See, the Blog Herald is asking the same question I did: Is 2005 the “Year... Read more
This is the last SLANTS song I’ll ever sing for you
For now. It was exciting last Friday, arguing the appeal of the THE SLANTS*, at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit! A little... Read more
Show me the money
Copyright is happening all over the place! Now, a slight digression from the stemwinder I’m about to release here on fee shifting in copyright cases.... Read more
The power to destroy
I generally avoid any invocation of the Internal Revenue Code around here, as I have explained. Others are less intimidated by the government’s brutally wielded... Read more
Mourning Sonny
Posted on November 17th, 2008: No, not that Sonny. No, rather this: If America’s most famous variety-show-star-turned-congressman hadn’t slammed into that tree on that fatal... Read more
Couture in Court
Fabulous filings for fashionistas — and those who just want to look like them! Originally posted 2012-02-29 23:27:24. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Read more
A head of the game
Says Ed: Some ponder, “Are law blogs dying?” Others follow Blawg Review and know they’re not. Or at least that the answer is … negotiable.... Read more
The AP, copyright, and the bloggers
You can’t have missed the story, in all its agony. One weensy problem with the blogosphere: It’s so quick, so supple, so instantaneous, so plastic…... Read more
When you’re a hammer
The whole world is a nail. Now Marty Schwimmer isn’t a hammer, because he does trademarks and not patents, see. So this post connecting Michael... Read more
Trademark parodies and iconic marks: can foul become fair?
In 2010 I wrote this post about a now-notorious case, eventually ensconced as Louis Vuitton Malletier, S.A. v. Hyundai Motor America, 2012 WL 1022247 (S.D.N.Y.,... Read more
Best of 2008: Cowboy rules
First posted June 24, 2008. From the National Post, trademark news about a lawsuit brought by New York’s charming Naked Cowboy against the makers of... Read more
Friends of the court, friends of the First Amendment
The approved and publishable amicus briefs in the appeal regarding the trademark registration of THE SLANTS are trickling in. Certainly interesting to see who is... Read more
Fireworks over the First Amendment
At least I hope so. Here are two briefs I filed on behalf of four fireworks companies in New York that have been put out... Read more