Best of 2011: Poor eBay!
First posted April 27, 2011.News item: eBay Beats The Street; Revenue Up 16 Percent To $2.5B; Net Income Up 12 Percent eBay just reported first quarter... Read more
Category: Counterfeiting & Piracy
Socialism in one country
G. Mathew Lombard reports: “According to this web site, 70% of all China’s internet bandwith is used to transfer pirated movies.” Can’t be what Chairman... Read more
Another business model bites the dust
It’s easy to make money on licensing when you don’t pay the royalties: A multi-agency task force has executed a search warrant on the country’s... Read more
Justice Served Cold
When I was in law school, my trademark law seminar instructor was a practicing lawyer who has his share of war stories, some involving actual... Read more
You know it’s not a crime any more when…
… even the judges are doing it? Originally posted 2010-06-17 23:02:25. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Read more
Reversal Strummed Up in Gibson Guitars Case
The AP reports: NASHVILLE, Tenn. Nashville-based Gibson Guitar Corporation has lost a legal battle. A federal appeals court has ruled that a competitor‘s copy of... Read more
When counterfeits are serious business
The New York Times writes about counterfeit drugs, the tragedies that follow in their wake and the reality of enforcement. Via the NCPA website. Originally... Read more
How Supreme Skateboard plays the edge
The new Case Clothesed blog out of New York Law School has a very interesting, if lightly sourced, piece about how Supreme Skateboard has managed for... Read more
Guileless on the East Side
Shameless, and utterly riskless, too, it seems — selling first-run movies now in the theaters in obvious counterfeit DVD form deep below the Upper East... Read more
Defining counterfeiting downward
Counterfeit Chic happens upon a new defense to trademark counterfeiting: “Counterfeiting? You call this counterfeiting?!” We’ve all seen imitation goods so poorly rendered that they... Read more
The wild card in music downloading
You thought college students were lawless about file “sharing”? Well, Russia is feeling its oats these days, what with oil prices up and dictatorship back... Read more
When Fakery Turns Fatal
The New York Times reports about an aspect of trademark enforcement which, among the disputes over rent-seeking and IP overreach, is often forgotten: The value... Read more
What the –? (ABC v. DEF.)
Here’s what we knew, and when we knew it: On March 19, 2013, a federal lawsuit was commenced in the United States District Court for... Read more
Cardiac counterfeiting
It’s not a defense to trademark infringement or counterfeiting that your heart is full of good intentions. Originally posted 2012-12-30 15:00:15. Republished by Blog Post... Read more