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Posted on March 19, 2023 LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®

Tech Law Advisor Reviews the Blawgs

Tech Law Advisor hosts the Blawg Review this week, and being a tech guy, tries something technologically different: Welcome to Blawg Review Live – a... Read more

Posted on March 17, 2023 LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®

Spam lovely, tasty; not actionable

Remember this story? Hormel has lost its attempt to regain control of its famous trademark in England, arguing — in an appropriately silly way — that... Read more

Posted on March 15, 2023 Anonymity

Internet anonymity still a judicial fave

Evan Brown reports: A trial court in Arizona has quashed a subpoena served on Godaddy, issued by a plaintiff in a defamation suit against an... Read more

Posted on March 14, 2023 Roundups

Knockoff News 54

It fell off the back of a truck! Originally posted 2013-06-07 12:10:41. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Read more

Posted on March 12, 2023 Patents

Settlement reached in Blackberry case

In case you get all your news here — well, more specifically, since we have dealt with this issue — the news today is that... Read more

Posted on March 9, 2023 Free Expression

Ideological purity

Yahoo News: Chinese Communist Party chief Hu Jintao has vowed to “purify” the Internet, state media reported on Wednesday, describing a top-level meeting that discussed... Read more

Posted on March 3, 2023 Journalism

Free speech is a two-way street

Ink-stained wretch Don Surber goes against the journalism-school grain in response to an Op-Ed by an obscure Kentucky journalism professor offended by accusations of disloyalty... Read more

Posted on February 27, 2023 Counterfeiting & Piracy

Hollow comfort

Did you ever wonder just how effective holograms are as an anti-counterfeiting device? When they first came out in the 1980’s, we were all impressed.... Read more

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Posted on February 23, 2023February 24, 2023 Law Practice and Profession

Judges aren’t known for their sense of humor… about judges

John (Keeping Tabs on the TTAB®) Welch reports on the unsurprising conclusion that sarcasm doesn’t work better at the Trademark Trial and Appeals Board than... Read more

Posted on February 15, 2023February 20, 2023 Roundups

Knockoff News

Counterfeit Chic’s 69th edition of the karnival of kounterfeits was posted last week! Originally posted 2009-10-05 14:36:54. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Read more

Posted on February 11, 2023February 20, 2023 Free Expression

Obscenity: “Community Standards” and the Web

An interesting, and important, decision has come out of the Second Circuit, according to the The New York Law Journal (subscription required). Here are excerpts:... Read more

Posted on February 4, 2023 Domain Names

Mission Accomplia

The silly Accomplia sabre-rattling is over. Per the EFF, Sanofi-Aventis backed down: “Under terms of Tuesday’s settlement, AcompliaReport.com keeps its domain name, as long as... Read more

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Posted on January 26, 2023January 29, 2023 Law Practice and Profession

Not Hiring, but…

I (in my role as head of a small law firm) do get a lot of letters and emails of inquiry. It’s interesting to see... Read more

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Posted on January 25, 2023January 29, 2023 Roundups

Writing on to Blawg Review

I didn’t “go out” for law review in law school — don’t get me started — and my career has been a pretty sordid exercise since... Read more

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The question of whether consumers are likely to be confused is the signal inquiry that determines if a trademark infringement claim is valid. I write here about trademark law, copyright law, brands, free speech (mostly as it relates to the Internet and social media). That may sound like a lot, but it's just a blog.

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