Best of 2005: Cleaning Up, or Getting Their Clocks Cleaned?
Ron ColemanPosted on August 19, 2005. I stumbled on this article in Slate and it seemed to contradict my point in one of my favorite posts. On reflection I realized that…
Occupying trademark
So eventually all the “big trademark stories” catch up to you, even if you try to avoid them as you would try to avoid … certain assemblies of people in…
STOLICHNAYA trademark: There’s good news and bad news.
The statutory copyright damages awards merry-go-round Thomas-Rasset circus is not the only case that seems to be stuck in an infinitely-recurring loop. As Pamela Chestek explains, “the STOLICHNAYA case end…
Fishy business
Ron ColemanFunny things happen to trademarks in the Casbah. John Burgess at the Crossroads Arabia blog has a story about a recent incident of Saudi Arabia’s religious police overplaying their considerable…
Move on, already
Ron ColemanYet another chapter in the abuse of supposed trademark rights in “catchphrases” — now from MoveOn, the “freedom” people. The purveyor of an “infringing” T-shirt ran for the hills, intimidated…
De-Branding Columbia University’s Nazi triumph
(First posted September 24, 2007) “If Columbia is not ashamed of the decision,” writes Justin Hart, why did it de-brand Holocaust denier / promiser Ahmadinejad of Iran at today’s controversial…
Counterfeit rodent gets the cheese
Decadent western culture is rat obsessed, it’s true. But sometimes the rodent has to take one for the team. Now, in true Islamist fashion, but with an IP twist: How…
Fat, addicted to Internet and stupid no way to go through life
“Another” Internet-related death (apologies to the “X-Police“) (and Dean Wormer of course)…
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 few weeks ago (I recycled…
RIAA defenders directory
I’m not so sure the RIAA isn’t on firm legal ground. In fact, I think they mostly are. Information may want to be free but so does crude oil; that…
Politically incorrect trademarks, continued
Bad feelings from (not so?) long ago get played out across the China Straits. Just how much should trademark registration reflect personal, national, or ethnic sensibilities? This question continues to…
Trademark McCrisis? (Or, McArabia)
Is this good for McDonalds’ branding (click here for my personal favorite URL)? I’m not so sure it’s that bad. Having your trademark publicly desecrated by the perpetually unhappy —…
Do you mean, PLEASE come arrest me and send me to reeducation camp?
This Google stuff has just gotten so tiring, so all over the place, that I’ve given up on keeping track of it. The piece with giving in to China’s repression…