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Category: IP Overreaching

Posted on May 28, 2021 IP Overreaching

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

Posted on May 28, 2021 IP Overreaching

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

Posted on May 28, 2021 IP Overreaching

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

Posted on May 28, 2021 IP Overreaching

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

Posted on May 28, 2021 IP Overreaching

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

Posted on May 25, 2021 IP Overreaching

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

BatesLine
Posted on May 25, 2021 IP Overreaching

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

Posted on May 24, 2021 IP Overreaching

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

Posted on May 15, 2020 IP Overreaching

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

Posted on October 17, 2019 IP Overreaching

Dell’s cloudy IP planning

Has anyone figured this out? Dell’s newly-acquired trademark for the term “cloud computing” may have all the durability of a glass hammer, meaning it will... Read more

Posted on October 17, 2019 IP Overreaching

NFL punts in “Big game”

The NFL is a lot of things, but I never thought it was stupid. It turns out that it isn’t. The Sports Blog reports: Remember... Read more

Posted on September 20, 2019 IP Overreaching

We’ve got a bigger problem now

Orwell Estate Sends Copyright Takedown Over the Number “1984” – TorrentFreak https://t.co/eKgwHmhXmf — TrademarkBlog (@TrademarkBlog) October 27, 2015 It’s like something out of 1984! Where... Read more

Posted on September 18, 2019 IP Overreaching

Best of 2008: The Color Purple

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 April 29, 2019 IP Overreaching

The super bowl of SUPER BOWL®s

I used to have the Super Bowl® trademark gig all to myself.  The last post I did was in 2015, when I chided Consumer Reports... 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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