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
Category: 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
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
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
IOU’s for IU
Here’s the story about how Indiana University stopped Indoctrinate U. — a documentary that is critical of political correctness on American college campuses — in... Read more
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... Read more
Hershey keeps pushing it
And as usual, Marty’s on top of it like chocolate sauce on vanilla ice cream. Hershey’s (Hershey’s’s?) pushing of the wrapper, foil and all, is... Read more
Best of 2012: Hardball at the TTAB
First posted on October 29, 2012. Far be it from me to put words into the mouth of John Welch, whose powers of expression are... Read more
Those Olympian games
Authoritative British IP blogger Peter Groves has characteristically well-developed thoughts about the UK’s widely-reported reign of terror over enforcement concerning “unauthorized” use of the word... Read more
Best of 2014: IP’s Ancien Régime
First posted on April 2, 2014. Instapundit linked to an abstract of a law journal article called “IP in a World Without Scarcity” by Mark Lemley at... Read more
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... Read more
People Endlessly Troubling All
The Canadian Trademark Blog reports that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), the extremist anti-protein group, has launched a new “spoof” website in... Read more
The PROTECT IP Act: We’re all infringers now
Glenn Reynolds links to this story: Dozens of law professors: PROTECT IP Act is unconstitutional: An ideologically diverse group of 90 law professors has signed... Read more
A Republican feint on copyright?
I tried, and perhaps had some success, in making the point right before the election that there were political — as in policy, and as... Read more