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Posted on September 26, 2023 Trademarks and trademark law

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

Posted on September 21, 2023 Uncategorized

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Times reports: The Supreme Court on Wednesday adopted a historic rule change that will allow lawyers to cite so-called unpublished opinions in federal courts...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

College Belushi
Posted on September 20, 2023 Brand Management and Branding

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

Posted on September 18, 2023 Blogging

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

Posted on September 16, 2023 Roundups

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

Posted on September 14, 2023 Patents

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

Posted on September 13, 2023 Counterfeiting & Piracy

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

Posted on September 6, 2023 Free Expression

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

Posted on September 1, 2023 Uncategorized

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

Posted on August 27, 2023 Rights of Publicity and Personality

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

Posted on August 21, 2023 LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®

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

Posted on August 19, 2023 Brand Management and Branding

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

Posted on August 17, 2023 Politics

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

Posted on August 6, 2023 IP Overreaching

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

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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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