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Standard of review in IP cases – NYIPLA Annual Meeting next Tuesday, May 15th

Ron Coleman May 9, 2018 0 Comments

The New York Intellectual Property Association (NYIPLA) Annual Meeting is this coming Tuesday, May 15th at the Princeton Club in New York. I’ll be there — on the second panel,…

IP Institutions

Meet the Bloggers XIV – INTA Seattle

Ron Coleman Apr 19, 2018 0 Comments

Going to INTA in Seattle this year? I am! If you still want to go, however, you will not want to miss Meet the Bloggers XIV. XIV is fourteen! You…

IP Institutions

Hurricane Harvey: Have a Heart for Houston

Ron Coleman Sep 5, 2017 1 Comments

Via @elizabethking: I spoke with World Trademark Review about the IP community’s response & outreach on #HurricaneHarvey Link: https://t.co/WHnA5SlikV #Houston pic.twitter.com/TBHt8ecNFn — Elizabeth King (@ElizabethKing) September 5, 2017 And here’s…

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Impaneled in Seattle

Ron Coleman Feb 16, 2017 0 Comments

I’m here now for tomorrow’s McCarthy Institute and Microsoft Corporation Symposium, “Trademark Law and Its Challenges 2017” at the Amazon Corporate Conference Center. My panel looks like this: 9:50AM-11:00AM Trademark…

IP Institutions

INTA’s magic kingdom

Ron Coleman May 27, 2016 2 Comments

Waiting in line for my choc shake . Thanks @cantabip for organizing: #INTA16 Tweetup official group photo. pic.twitter.com/IgMYNy0YGE — Kenneth L. Kunkle (@Kunkle_Law) May 23, 2016 This year’s annual meeting…

IP Institutions

The statute that keeps on giving

Ron Coleman Feb 26, 2015 0 Comments

I am grateful for a break in the Section 2(a) action long enough that I could sneak in some blogging about another topic this week. Apropos that post’s nostalgic subject,…

IP Institutions

Best of 2014: Consensus in Cleveland

Ron Coleman Dec 24, 2014 0 Comments

First posted on March 12, 2014. Far be it from me to compare myself to the distinguished former Chief Judge of the Federal Circuit, the Hon. Paul R. Michel —…

IP Institutions

IP’s Ancien Régime

Ron Coleman Apr 2, 2014 5 Comments

Instapundit linked to an abstract of a law journal article called “IP in a World Without Scarcity” by Mark Lemley at Stanford. Fun fact from his Stanford bio page: “His…

IP Institutions

Trademark misuse at the AIPLA

Ron Coleman Oct 28, 2013 2 Comments

Down at the bottom of this post is a PDF of my paper, included in the CLE materials for a panel on which I was a participant at the American…

IP Institutions

Google a utility? Not the way we thought

Ron Coleman Sep 18, 2013 0 Comments

I asked the following question more than a little while back in connection with the Kinderstart lawsuit against Google, which asserted a supposed right to a certain “objective” Google ranking…

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Meet the Bloggers – INTA, Dallas, 2013!

Ron Coleman Apr 23, 2013 0 Comments

What else is there to say? Of course you’re invited!

IP Institutions

Best of 2012: INTA and the big tent

Ron Coleman Dec 24, 2012 0 Comments

First posted on May 13, 2012.In the previous INTA post I raised the question of how a significant session discussing a significant topic — the effect of developments in keyword…

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A long blog thread’s journey INTA night

Ron Coleman May 16, 2012 2 Comments

Now: I had mentioned that the Managing IP link I provided in the first INTA post alluded to some pretty interesting fireworks involving the “empty chair” in this debate, i.e.,…

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Just not that INTA it

Ron Coleman May 16, 2012 1 Comments

It felt like I could write a seven-part series about all the ideas I had in my head, driving me insane, about INTA 2012. Maybe if I’d stayed up all…

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