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Category: Gripe and Review Sites

Decline and fall of the dumb copyright trick (Best of 2017)

Posted on January 1, 2018 by Ron Coleman

First published on November 13, 2017. One of the dumbest things people — overlawyered, and, sadly, mainly professionally-licensed people — have tried to do to […]

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Get a gripe

Posted on December 8, 2017 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2014-03-14 10:40:47. Republished by Blog Post PromoterTom Crandall considers “When A Gripe Site Is Manipulated By A Competitor” — and gets a crack […]

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Decline and fall of the dumb copyright trick

Posted on November 13, 2017 by Ron Coleman

One of the dumbest things people — overlawyered, and, sadly, mainly professionally-licensed people — have tried to do to avoid negative online reviews is to […]

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Public Citizen pushes IP overreach back

Posted on March 8, 2016 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2014-10-06 09:52:09. Republished by Blog Post PromoterGreg Beck of Public Citizen writes in with litigation news (I’ve added the links): Public Citizen filed […]

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Personality disorder

Posted on February 9, 2016 by Ron Coleman

When will we ever learn?  The story here is about a lawsuit by lawyer Moira Bernstein, who complains, on behalf of a purported class, that by […]

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UK eBay seller sues buyer for negative feedback

Posted on December 9, 2015 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2014-01-17 10:17:29. Republished by Blog Post PromoterThat really takes chutzpa.  But it’s an odd choice for the seller, who would seem to have […]

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The unbearable dumbness of threatening

Posted on November 16, 2012 by Ron Coleman

I’ve made a career here of tut-tutting the impolitic and brand-negating utterance of baseless cease and desist and other threatening letters based on IP infringement, […]

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Commercial, Trademark and Free Speech Litigation

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The Title, the Blog and the Blogger

The question of whether consumers are likely to be confused is the signal inquiry that determines if a trademark infringement claim is valid. I write here about trademark law, copyright law, brands, free speech (mostly as it relates to the Internet) and legal issues related to blogging. That may sound like a lot, but it's just a blog.

ron-coleman-lawyerAs for me, I'm Ron Coleman, a commercial litigator and a partner in the Dhillon Law Group with a special interest in copyright and trademark law and free speech. I was also the lead lawyer for The Slants, The Band Who Must Not be Named.

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