Ron Coleman

What’s A Library, and What Is Google Going to do to It?

Posted on November 4, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2005-08-19 16:32:51. Republished by Blog Post PromoterDiscussed with intelligence and insight at the Derivate Work blog.

Fair Use

Only problem is an hour later you’re short-circuiting

Posted on November 4, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2011-11-28 14:33:17. Republished by Blog Post Promoter It hurts when the fake Chinese electronics sell better than the originals. No, I mean sometimes […]

LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®

Disclaimer for the slow-witted, the vicious and the greedy

Posted on November 3, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2014-05-23 12:54:00. Republished by Blog Post PromoterI have added a disclaimer to the navigation bar as the winds of oppression howl about me. […]

Parody and Satire

Pushing the edges of franchising

Posted on November 3, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2007-08-16 21:10:47. Republished by Blog Post Promoter On Avenue J in Brooklyn’s Midwood section (known to orthodox Jews as “Flatbush,” though it is […]

Brand Management and Branding

Blawg Review Greatness

Posted on November 3, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2005-08-01 10:22:46. Republished by Blog Post PromoterThe Greatest American Lawyer (presumably outside of New Jersey) hosts what is surely the Greatest American Blawg […]

Roundups

Changing the IP Mentality

Posted on November 3, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2012-06-22 14:07:19. Republished by Blog Post PromoterMark V.B. Partridge, a partner at the firm that bears the name of my old trademark professor […]

IP Overreaching

He’s one of them

Posted on November 3, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2006-11-20 16:00:10. Republished by Blog Post PromoterAn IP lawyer, that is, and the “he” is Matthew Saunders, who blogs at Legal Fixation. He […]

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Stevens Yes! Stevens No!

Posted on November 2, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2012-10-25 14:01:12. Republished by Blog Post PromoterWhose Court Is It Really? asks the Atlantic Monthly, and its answer is: John Paul Stevens’s court! […]

Law Practice and Profession

Foul baller

Posted on November 2, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2014-04-09 07:50:26. Republished by Blog Post PromoterA former major leaguer goes from giving up runs to running from the law. From pitch counts […]

Counterfeiting & Piracy, Everything else

Google Gets it Right

Posted on November 1, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2014-01-03 09:49:01. Republished by Blog Post PromoterPerfect discrimination is every seller’s dream. The Internet at once promises to make that dream reality and […]

Uncategorized

Can’t win for chewing

Posted on November 1, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2013-08-20 13:18:04. Republished by Blog Post PromoterLouis Vuitton Malletier loses one on parody grounds. I guess you had to be there — sounds […]

Parody and Satire, Secondary Meaning

Spam lovely, tasty; not actionable

Posted on November 1, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2009-10-18 20:03:56. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Remember this story? Hormel has lost its attempt to regain control of its famous trademark in England, […]

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Opposition to “scandalous mark” opens some box

Posted on November 1, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2006-02-16 19:32:24. Republished by Blog Post PromoterMarty Schwimmer chronicles and opines on the latest blip in the controversy regarding registration of a tasteless […]

Disparaging, Immoral, Deceptive, or Scandalous

Tough McNuggets

Posted on November 1, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2007-03-22 21:04:20. Republished by Blog Post PromoterJoe Gratz shares none of McDonald’s McPain over its efforts to get “McJob” out of the dictionary. […]

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