
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
Lawyer Ron Coleman on brands, the Internet & free speech
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
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Times reports: The Supreme Court on Wednesday adopted a historic rule change that will allow lawyers to cite so-called unpublished opinions in federal courts...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
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
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
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
… 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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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