Tweeting the week what was
As threatened in the previous post, and by way of rounding up blog posts and other items that should be of interest to LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION® […]
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Best of 2008: Other People’s Money
First published January 8, 2008. WSJ.com’s Law Blog reports about the seven-figure effect in the Central District of California for a one-minute-late filing: A judgment in […]
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Museum of genericization
The Merriam-Webster Online dictionary has a cute little feature: The “Top Ten Words from Trademarks.” You know, mainly the usual suspects: Band-Aids, etc. It’s a study […]
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Best of 2008: No Social Networking Privilege
On Point reports that a New Jersey federal magistrate has, to the surprise of no actual attorney I could imagine, ruled that MySpace and Facebook […]
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Best of 2007: It was twenty years ago today
First posted on February 5, 2007. Okay, not quite 20, but 16 years ago that Apple Inc. and the Beatles’ old record label, Apple Corps, […]
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Money for nothing
Dead horse? You’d think so. Copyright statutory damages, that is. We’ve been there, and done that, right? Not according to Larry Zerner, who says the […]
Continue reading »Fools’ Blog Responds to "I Read Dead Peoples’ Email"
Actually responding to my post on the topic, Fools’ Blog: After Death E-Privacy [Link is now dead, sorry! — RDC]: With regard to the Marine’s privacy, […]
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Best of 2014: Law blogging — Time is of the essence. Not.
Originally posted on May 29, 2014. Had a delightful lunch with a couple of very interesting lawyers yesterday. It would have been perfect if they […]
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Clothiers and disclosure (Best of 2016)
First posted on May 6, 2016. Interesting. This, from the mysterious Julie Zerbo at her iconoclastic blog, The Fashion Law: The newest group of potential outlaws […]
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Schadenfreude hits a new high
You are now reading the only sentence I’m writing in this, the first-ever “no comment,” utterly self-explanatory (besides these introductory words) post on LIKELIHOOD OF […]
Continue reading »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… […]
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Louis Vuitton — the big IP player that keeps on giving
Ah hah! Two of my favorite subjects, like peanut butter and chocolate, in one candy bar: prof amici in @LouisVuitton case argue federal trademark dilution […]
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Persia purge
Remember how assiduously copyright owners went after services that made Hollywood entertainment “family friendly” against creators’ wishes? Now do Iran.
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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 […]
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