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
Category: IP Overreaching
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
Pro shutterbug’s guide to IP
Here’s a good excerpt from a new book by copyright doyenne Nancy Wolff called The Professional Photographer’s Legal Handbook. It’s on a favorite topic of... Read more
Litigation as competition by other means
Anyone involved in intellectual property litigation, whether as a party or an attorney, is aware that it has become a method for eliminating competition or... Read more
Key shift
Google has long played fast and loose with the sale of key words, leaning this way or that but claiming to have content- or politically-neutral... Read more
The “Voice of God”
Patrick Guevara reports about a divinely-inspired, and, from a trademark point of view, pretty odd dispute between the NFL and the estate of John Facenda,... Read more
Pi for all
Can you enforce a copyright in pi? You know — ????. Turns out no, you can’t; Sergiy Sivochek explains. Originally posted 2012-04-04 21:34:13. Republished by Blog... Read more
Hacker Scouts? Yeah, Hacker Scouts! – UPDATED
It’s like, this, see: The Hacker Scouts is an organization “that focuses on STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and math) education, skill building and community engagement with... Read more
Bea©h ball?
At a recent beach-themed birthday party for a one-year-old girl, the cute, creative table-number “cards” were small inflated beach balls with the guests’ names written... Read more
SUPER BOWL® trademark post XI: Consumer Reports and the super-duper exemption
Yes, it is that time of year again — the SUPER BOWL® trademark overreaching (dare I say bullying?) time of year. This January I’m focusing... Read more
You and Me Against the (Tulsa) World
Instapundit reports that Mike Bates at the Bates Line blog is fighting back against meritless legal threats from his nemesis, 500-pound media gorilla (in Tulsa terms) the Tulsa World. Mike... Read more
Best of 2005: Culture Killers or Pains in the Neck?
First posted on February 17, 2005. Wired reports on a new book whose thrust, evidently, aligns decently well with my own little personal views (and... 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
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... Read more