The unbearable dumbness of threatening
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,... Read more
Category: Gripe and Review Sites
Decline and fall of the dumb copyright trick
One of the dumbest things people — overlawyered, and, sadly, mainly professionally-licensed people — have tried to do to avoid negative online reviews is to... Read more
UK eBay seller sues buyer for negative feedback
That really takes chutzpa. But it’s an odd choice for the seller, who would seem to have acknowledged the buyer’s complaint by refunding his money. ... Read more
Decline and fall of the dumb copyright trick (Best of 2017)
First published on November 13, 2017. One of the dumbest things people — overlawyered, and, sadly, mainly professionally-licensed people — have tried to do to... Read more
Get a gripe
Tom Crandall considers “When A Gripe Site Is Manipulated By A Competitor” — and gets a crack expert opinion in there. Says Tom: I believe... Read more
Public Citizen pushes IP overreach back
Greg Beck of Public Citizen writes in with litigation news (I’ve added the links): Public Citizen filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit in Florida... Read more
Personality disorder
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... Read more