Vain reaction
The first two-thirds of this video is a story about a fundamental misunderstanding about what intellectual property is, in the sense of intellectual property that... Read more
Category: IP Overreaching
IP creep by the IP creeps
The record industry moves in yet another way toward getting the law to treat your music purchase as a music license (via BoingBoing), writes Ken... Read more
Jones Day keeps chillin’
Public Citizen’s Paul Alan Levy reports: A few weeks ago, I commented on the efforts of mega law firm Jones Day to abuse trademark law... Read more
Lego my Trademark
Europe just keeps generating stories. Their IP system is different, you see, though the march toward harmonization in a global market continues apace. Evidently, Lego... Read more
Changing the IP Mentality
Mark V.B. Partridge, a partner at the firm that bears the name of my old trademark professor and author of the Guiding Rights Blog [link is... Read more
Upper crust: the POCKET SANDWICHES (and maybe croissants) saga (Part 2 of 2)
[stextbox id=”info”]Last week I told the story — as told through this TTAB opinion — of Carl Vennitti’s seven-year tug of war with Nestlé, maker of... Read more
Bully for who?
Or should it be whom? Anyway, my article on trademark bullying first published in January’s Intellectual Property Magazine and excerpted in this previous post, is... Read more
Someone get these guys a bandage!
Judge Jed Rakoff, famous in the Southern District of New York for not wasting any (judicial) time, doesn’t waste any in the J&J / Red... Read more
Bullish on royalties
The New York Post reports that the sculptor of the famous golden calf frozen in stampeding fury on lower Broadway — symbolizing the charge of... Read more
Goldman: The SOPA and the PIPA and the Santa Fe
No, not really the Santa Fe, but the rhythm of it seemed right, and after last week’s Benny Goodman post, well, I’m feeling nostalgic for... 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
Censorious fools
Cory Doctorow writes about how abuse of the copyright laws — using them as a method of privatized censorship — does creators of protected works... Read more
The Stoller that lives under the bridge
If we didn’t have Leo Stoller we still couldn’t possibly invent him. Originally posted 2013-01-10 16:01:04. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Read more
One I lost: Guggenheim Capital vs. Little Old Man
It’s an appeal that I lost, the one on behalf of David Birnbaum, who was ordered by a court not to use his family name,... Read more