Two famous IP questions answered in one lawsuit
Anton Hopen reports that GM won an important verdict in a trademark case involving a toy Hummer. The jury awarded over a million and a... Read more
Author: Ron Coleman
No more Star Chamber opinions
Legal Times reports: The Supreme Court on Wednesday adopted a historic rule change that will allow lawyers to cite so-called unpublished opinions in federal courts... Read more
Trademark colors bleed
BrandWeek reports that universities are having success suing companies that make fan paraphernalia that don’t actually use team trademarks but do use slogans, colors and... Read more
Where there’s a will, there’s a Wii
No, it’s not an estate planning offer, but close. Robert Ambrogi reports about Erik J. Heels, a patent lawyer — whose law firm has actually invented... Read more
A Stitch in Time Saves Nine
Evan Schaeffer hosts this week’s Blawg Review #38 and credits Likelihood of Confusion for going light on the cliches. All’s well that ends well! Originally... Read more
The Only Good Patent
… is a smiley patent! (Most aren’t.) I got a heads-up on this one from the editor of Blawg Review, but before I could slip... Read more
Where there’s smokes
The Denver Post reports a very interesting, and for trademark plaintiffs very troubling, decision that the Supreme Court has refused to review. It has to... Read more
Is there hope along the commercial speech / free speech axis?
Evan Brown reports on a case that suggest that yes, there is. Good thing, too, considering the damage one case and one determined judge can... Read more
Google Gets it Right
Perfect discrimination is every seller’s dream. The Internet at once promises to make that dream reality and yet provides consumers with the range of choice... Read more
Tattoo Me ®
Eric Goldman has an interesting piece about an issue that has actually come up in my practice: Trademarks and tattoos, and specifically the concept of... Read more
The year in mascot-bashing
A website called Redwebz (“red”? that sounds kind of stereotypey, doesn’t it?) (link fixed!) writes that the “anti-mascot movement made headway in 2006,” and does... Read more
Microsoft’s trademark master plan
Microsoft appears therefore to be leaning completely on a German trademark as a part of its international trademark strategy for a new product. On the... Read more
YouTube: Criticize Islam? Now that’s offensive.
Instapundit.com reports that an atheist contributor to YouTube whose anti-Christian rants raised nary a Google’d eyebrow had his plug pulled when he started tussling with... Read more
Google down, boogy oogy oogy
Ben Charny at eWeek reports: “Google’s ‘Oogle’ Hunters Bag Another One.” What’s it all about? The magic of the double-o, reports Charny: Google’s Rose Hagan,... Read more