Against Monopoly
Originally posted 2014-02-27 18:09:58. Republished by Blog Post PromoterI figured — finally! Someone who feels my pain! Those little red green plastic houses that always […]
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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 […]
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Best of 2008: The Color Purple
Originally posted 2015-01-22 07:13:29. Republished by Blog Post PromoterThis was first posted on April 14, 2008. Cadbury is purple in the face over not being […]
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The super bowl of SUPER BOWL®s
Originally posted 2018-01-26 11:50:48. Republished by Blog Post PromoterI used to have the Super Bowl® trademark gig all to myself. The last post I did […]
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IOU’s for IU
Originally posted 2011-05-04 12:14:48. Republished by Blog Post PromoterHere’s the story about how Indiana University stopped Indoctrinate U. — a documentary that is critical of […]
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Pi for all
Originally posted 2012-04-04 21:34:13. Republished by Blog Post PromoterCan you enforce a copyright in pi? You know — ????. Turns out no, you can’t; Sergiy Sivochek […]
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Trademarks: Famous is as famous does
My latest paper offers a simple idea to get trademark owners to stop suing parodists, satirists, and other expressive users: make evidence of such independent […]
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Hershey keeps pushing it
Originally posted 2014-08-11 18:52:36. Republished by Blog Post PromoterAnd as usual, Marty’s on top of it like chocolate sauce on vanilla ice cream. Hershey’s (Hershey’s’s?) […]
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Best of 2012: Hardball at the TTAB
Originally posted 2012-12-27 06:00:00. Republished by Blog Post PromoterFirst posted on October 29, 2012. Far be it from me to put words into the mouth […]
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Those Olympian games
Originally posted 2013-10-25 12:41:05. Republished by Blog Post PromoterAuthoritative British IP blogger Peter Groves has characteristically well-developed thoughts about the UK’s widely-reported reign of terror […]
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Not the swiftest
It is so tiring. But that, to some extent, is what they’re counting on. Taylor Swift abusing trademark, again, of course. And everyone else not […]
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Best of 2014: IP’s Ancien Régime
Originally posted 2014-12-24 04:08:30. Republished by Blog Post PromoterFirst posted on April 2, 2014. Instapundit linked to an abstract of a law journal article called “IP in […]
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Bentley gets stuck in reverse
I hardly ever write about trademark things from other countries, including the Mother Country. But this UK story seemed like a good trademarks / brand […]
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People Endlessly Troubling All
Originally posted 2014-01-22 13:44:31. Republished by Blog Post PromoterThe Canadian Trademark Blog reports that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), the extremist anti-protein […]
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