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Category: IP Overreaching

Posted on August 26, 2021October 29, 2021 IP Overreaching

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

Posted on August 21, 2021August 23, 2021 IP Overreaching

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

Posted on June 17, 2021 IP Overreaching

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

Posted on June 17, 2021 IP Overreaching

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

Posted on June 17, 2021 IP Overreaching

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

Posted on June 17, 2021 IP Overreaching

Digg this

Encryption key Dugg. UPDATE: Here’s more, from no less than Ed Felten (via Instapundit). If you need a program to follow what the heck’s going... Read more

Posted on June 17, 2021 IP Overreaching

Wronghaven

Clayton Cramer, via Insty, report on an unsurprising, but still dramatic, development in the Righthaven saga, which I tweeted about last night: From the ever... Read more

Posted on June 2, 2021 IP Overreaching

The stupid Berns

IP overreaching, like politics and intellectual property, makes strange bedfellows.  Thus the email from my comrade in litigation against IP overreach, but at the same... Read more

Posted on June 2, 2021 IP Overreaching

More sports rent seeking from the hallowed halls of — oh, heck, it’s Alabama we’re talking about

Imagine a university claiming not only trademark rights in all “depictions” of its NCAA paid giant freak entertainment troupe Division IA football team? That would... Read more

Posted on June 2, 2021 IP Overreaching

Dumb bomb

Courthouse News Service picks up on a final ruling in a case that made everyone titter last fall: A Long Island man infringed on Pfizer’s... Read more

Posted on May 28, 2021 IP Overreaching

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

Posted on May 28, 2021 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

Posted on May 28, 2021 IP Overreaching

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

Posted on May 28, 2021 IP Overreaching

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

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