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
Category: IP Overreaching
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
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
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
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
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
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
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