Ron Coleman

Reversal Strummed Up in Gibson Guitars Case

Posted on December 19, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2011-12-23 11:45:20. Republished by Blog Post PromoterThe AP reports: NASHVILLE, Tenn. Nashville-based Gibson Guitar Corporation has lost a legal battle. A federal appeals […]

Counterfeiting & Piracy, Trademarks and trademark law

More good publicity for the RIAA

Posted on December 16, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2007-06-27 20:44:15. Republished by Blog Post PromoterIt might not be true. But they don’t write these things about you and me. UPDATE: It’s […]

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Yes, you can get your trademark judgment enforced in a foreign country!

Posted on December 3, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2010-09-13 10:50:42. Republished by Blog Post PromoterUh, not really. Not in this lifetime. But you can get it enforced in Canada, which is […]

Trademarks and trademark law

Google Gored by Literary Lions

Posted on November 21, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2010-07-08 11:33:44. Republished by Blog Post PromoterReuters “news service” reports that the Authors Guild and a number of American writers are suing Google […]

One Bloggin’ Apple Don’t Spoil the Whole Bunch

Posted on November 18, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2015-08-20 15:23:43. Republished by Blog Post PromoterOriginally posted 2005-01-12 00:00:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Bob Cox pointed me in the direction of […]

Blogging

First Amendment Lives on Campus (at least a little)

Posted on November 18, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2010-06-28 01:00:03. Republished by Blog Post PromoterThe online New York Law Journal (sub. required) reports on an important free speech case: Vesting a […]

Free Expression

TTAB / Al Qaeda Claim: Trademarks Make the Big Time

Posted on November 12, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2005-08-02 14:34:17. Republished by Blog Post PromoterSometimes we microniche bloggers get a little antsy with the self-imposed limitations on our scope. Ah, to […]

Politics

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 […]

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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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