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Category: IP Overreaching

Posted on February 24, 2023February 24, 2023 IP Overreaching

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

Posted on December 29, 2022 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

Posted on November 9, 2022 IP Overreaching

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

Posted on October 2, 2022 IP Overreaching

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

Posted on September 30, 2022 IP Overreaching

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

Posted on July 31, 2022 IP Overreaching

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

Posted on July 16, 2022 IP Overreaching Trademarks and trademark law

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

Posted on June 7, 2022 IP Overreaching

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

Posted on May 2, 2022 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

Posted on March 5, 2022 IP Overreaching

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

Posted on February 12, 2022February 18, 2022 IP Overreaching

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

Posted on February 10, 2022February 18, 2022 IP Overreaching

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

Posted on February 4, 2022February 18, 2022 IP Overreaching

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

David Birnbaum Guggenheim
Posted on December 13, 2021 IP Overreaching

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

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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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