I Read Dead Peoples’ Email: UPDATE
Remember this item? I wrote, regarding a family’s request for access to a serviceman’s email account after his death, as follows: I say that absent... Read more
Author: Ron Coleman
Not So Plain Dealing
Instapundit links to this teef-gnashing item from Michael Silence about this super-secret scandal, based on leaked documents, that the Cleveland Plain Dealer would for sure... Read more
Vacation Justified!
If the news cycle gets slow enough, anyone can get quoted on the Internet! Plus, if you clicked on the throwaway at the bottom of... Read more
Mimeograph Me
The online edition (free registration required) of the Times Herald-Record, “serving New York’s Hudson Valley and the Catskills,” reports about a blogger suit brought back... Read more
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
Heavy lifting
The Google Copyright Blog rips into that bad deep-linking decision in Texas. Originally posted 2007-01-04 18:02:41. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Read more
The 2006 Weblog Awards: Best Law Blog
Vote here if you like that sort of thing! LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION? Ah. Yes. Well. Uh, no, we’re not nominated. But it’s an honor just... Read more
One nation, under gods
Volokh.com weighs in on an issue, not irrelevant to this blog (where the First Amendment is a topic), I blogged about on Dean’s World a... Read more
The old IP/antitrust axis, revived
Michael Atkins examines a recent decision addressing the possibility of “restraint of trade by trademark.” The supposed nexus of antitrust and intellectual property always takes... Read more
Google Stock, Credibility Tumble
We blogged on this a while ago — the question of whether Google News is the sort of fair and balanced you’d like to see... Read more
Immoral / scandalous test lives at PTO
John Welch reports on a denial of a Spanish-language mark upheld on that basis, which continues to puzzle me, though it does not bother me... Read more
Pod people pursued
Apple wants all the “-pod” trademark territory for itself. Actually, contrary to the ZDNet article and my own usually liberal opinions on this sort of... Read more
Editor and Publisher: Stop the new trademark dilution bill
Steve Yahn at Editor and Publisher tries to stir up some interest in what should be — search-term advertising and other flavors of the month... Read more
Famous names on famous dames
Oscars after-party thoughts: Did you ever wonder about just how far someone can go “knocking off” a famous designer gown? Counterfeit Chic twirls around some... Read more