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Category: IP Institutions

Posted on February 3, 2023 IP Institutions Patents Trademarks and trademark law

Where nobody knows your name

I subbed for a more important lawyer on a panel for the American Intellectual Property Association Spring Meeting in New York today (May 7, 2010).... Read more

Posted on January 19, 2023 IP Institutions

Meet the Bloggers XIV – INTA Seattle

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... Read more

Posted on August 24, 2022 IP Institutions

Best of 2014: Consensus in Cleveland

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... Read more

Posted on August 9, 2022August 11, 2022 IP Institutions

New online “IP Clearinghouse” from Stanford

The Chicago IP Litigation Blog put me onto Stanford Law School’s new IP Litigation Clearinghouse. This is a neat site. While not completely built out,... Read more

Posted on June 21, 2022 IP Institutions

Ivan’s IP

Boing Boing reports on a chilling development: The Kremlin is using Russia’s new anti-software-piracy laws to target dissident media outlets and shut them down. This... Read more

Posted on April 10, 2022 IP Institutions

Censorship at INTA?

In a post from last Friday, Lara Pearson takes on what she calls “Censorship at INTA .”* It’s about the big-IP redoubt’s plan to remove the... Read more

Posted on March 30, 2022 Fashion Law IP Institutions

Fashion ex nihilo?

So much for Special Creation in blog graphics, I guess.  It seems that the theologically inclined among us trademark law types think alike… but in... Read more

Posted on March 8, 2022 IP Institutions

Best of 2012: INTA and the big tent

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... Read more

Posted on February 17, 2022 IP Institutions

Impaneled in Seattle

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... Read more

Posted on January 1, 2022January 12, 2022 IP Institutions

Trademark misuse at the AIPLA

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... Read more

Posted on December 12, 2021 IP Institutions

Google Stock, Credibility Tumble

We blogged on this a while ago — the question of whether Google News is the sort of fair and balanced you’d like to see... Read more

Posted on October 17, 2021 IP Institutions

Hurricane Harvey: Have a Heart for Houston

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)... Read more

Posted on June 17, 2021 IP Institutions

Forward, INTA the past!

The International Trademark Association, or INTA (which calls itself “the I-N-T-A” on INTA TV… interesting branding choice there) is important. Most of the people and... Read more

Posted on June 11, 2021 IP Institutions

Reuters "Reports" Possibly Newsworthy WIPO Decision

Remember “Who, What, When and Where”? The New York Times headline says, “Actor Morgan Freeman wins cybersquatting case.” Now read the Reuters story (covered untouched,... Read more

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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 social media). That may sound like a lot, but it's just a blog.

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