Lawyer Ron Coleman on brands, the Internet & free speech
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. Read more
What else is there to say? Of course you’re invited! Originally posted 2013-04-23 20:57:49. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Read more
One of the dumbest things people — overlawyered, and, sadly, mainly professionally-licensed people — have tried to do to avoid negative online reviews is to... Read more
Where to start, where to start… At the beginning, I guess. Though not in chronological order. LIKELY2CONFUSE00001: I wrote a post on the subject of... Read more
Paul Alan Levy sends this along: The latest abuse of trademark law to suppress discussion of topics of substantial public interest comes from not from... Read more
Let’s get apolitically political here (via Instapundit, Mr. Diversity himself): An informal national coalition of Internet pioneers and users with widely divergent political views will... Read more
What’s all this I hear about the Supreme Court saying copyrights having to be registered for some reason? This thread provides a good summary of... Read more
UPDATE: All the below is still very relevant, very important and very significant — except as to the final judgment, which has been vacated by... Read more
Gene Quinn is just all over stuff, including this — something people ask me for all the time for free. Well, here are some free... Read more
This was first posted on August 26, 2009. Legal Blog Watch: Pet food giant Purina is like a dog that won’t give up its bone... Read more
Via fashionista-lawyer-to-the-fashionista-stars Olivera Medenica, it’s time to roll up for the Federal Bar Association‘s 2016 Fashion Law Conference at the Parson’s School of Design! Look,... Read more
Michael Hall of Registration Ruminations is wrestling, as more and more trademark practitioners are, with the increasingly ubiquitous problem of inconsistency within the PTO on... Read more
Bill Heinze writes about Patent Terrorism and whether it fits into the model, oft discussed here, of improper use of the intellectual property system as... Read more
This story is all over the everywhere; I’ll let Eriq Gardner sum it up, as he does so very nicely: Warner Bros. has won a... Read more