Trademarks, copyright, brand equity, and rent-seeking: Soapbox 2010
From last week’s INTA Trademark Topics email discussion list. One name has been changed to protect the innocent, and the links, by way of annotation,... Read more
Category: IP Overreaching
Tall orders
It’s always something, isn’t it. Here’s the latest shipwreck-in-the-making — you can’t call tall ships tall ships any more, matey: The age of wooden ships... Read more
Likelihood of baloney
IP Law Chat chats about how “paranormalist” charlatan Uri Geller got all bent out of shape over Brian Sapient, a member of the “Rational Response... Read more
The more things change…
The more they stay the same. This could be a story from 15 years ago, or any of a number of posts on this blog... Read more
Google down, boogy oogy oogy
Ben Charny at eWeek reports: “Google’s ‘Oogle’ Hunters Bag Another One.” What’s it all about? The magic of the double-o, reports Charny: Google’s Rose Hagan,... Read more
Mourning Sonny
No, not that Sonny. No, rather this: If America’s most famous variety-show-star-turned-congressman hadn’t slammed into that tree on that fatal day of downhill skiing, we’d... Read more
Digg this
Encryption key Dugg. UPDATE: Here’s more, from no less than Ed Felten (via Instapundit). If you need a program to follow what the heck’s going... Read more
Wronghaven
Clayton Cramer, via Insty, report on an unsurprising, but still dramatic, development in the Righthaven saga, which I tweeted about last night: From the ever... Read more
The stupid Berns
IP overreaching, like politics and intellectual property, makes strange bedfellows. Thus the email from my comrade in litigation against IP overreach, but at the same... Read more
Against Monopoly
I figured — finally! Someone who feels my pain! Those little red green plastic houses that always get lost. The paper money gets all mixed... Read more
More sports rent seeking from the hallowed halls of — oh, heck, it’s Alabama we’re talking about
Imagine a university claiming not only trademark rights in all “depictions” of its NCAA paid giant freak entertainment troupe Division IA football team? That would... Read more
Dumb bomb
Courthouse News Service picks up on a final ruling in a case that made everyone titter last fall: A Long Island man infringed on Pfizer’s... Read more
Best of 2008: “The Color Purple” (April)
This was first posted on April 14, 2008. Cadbury is purple in the face over not being able to secure the wordlwide exclusive rights to... Read more
Owning ratings
Eric Goldman: A Colorado judge has reached the remarkable conclusion that a hospital publicizing its star ratings and other recognition from a third party rating... Read more