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Ron Colemanhttps://twitter.com/RonColeman/status/1526327154371354629?s=20&t=dBrIlhxxXt5t4TrCvhomQQ
Everything you ever wanted to know about lawyers*
What do lawyers like LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION blogger Ron Coleman do all day? Well, let's start with document review. A lot of it.
Judging the ABA
The ABA, like most national organizations of its kind, has evolved to serve the preferences of those at the organization's power nodes who are at once most activist and least…
Social media guidelines for lawyers from the NYSBA
You've heard about the new NYSBA Social Media Ethics Guidelines, right? Hear more about it at the @nyipla one-day seminar on Nov. 13th
Will Weed Killer Give You Cancer?
Brian WallaceIn January 2016, career California school groundskeeper Dewayne Johnson took legal action against the Monsanto company. Alleging his 2014 diagnosis of non-Hodgkins lymphoma was a result of his prolonged use…
INTA does the right thing
I’m glad I got my grumbling in before this hit my inbox: The International Trademark Association (INTA) is pleased to announce the launch of its Pro Bono Trademark Clearinghouse. An…
Women, IP law and the panel-gender quota count
It started with a bit of typical Internet snark between lawyer-mindfulness guru Jeena Cho and your snarky blogger: Go figure: It ended up being a very interesting discussion, if not…
The United States Supreme Court
We got a little tour of the U.S. Supreme Court building ahead of our argument in Lee v. Tam tomorrow, January 18, 2016. I was allowed to take pictures so…
Not gurus, but better
Via my new friend Jonathan Ezor, there’s this, if you haven’t already got a got a copy: The Social Media Guidelines Ethics Guidelines of the Commercial and Litigation Section of…
Webinar on 30(b)(6) depositions – December 8, 2015
It’s not all fun and games, you know. Next week, I’ll be online along with distinguished practitioner Charles H. Allen presenting a Strafford webinar revealing some of the strange and…
Linked for eternity
Scott SimonWhen Goetz Fitzpatrick‘s Scott D. Simon circulated news about a new service that manages the problem of citations to hyperlinks that may or may not exist in the future, I…
Kane on Trademark Law – 6th Edition
I’m biased in reviewing the 6th edition of the only comprehensive single-volume — Well, there you go. Bias number one: As far as I can tell, Siegrun Kane’s Kane on…
Defending the trademark infringement defendant
It’s an art, not a science — like all litigation — and despite the best advice, well… there are some things, many of them in robes, you just can’t account…
Best of 2013: It’s fun to stay at the U-N-T-A!
First published May 19, 2013. Last year there was much Strum und Drang here about INTA — sorry, I mean The I-N-T-A!, which stands for International Trademark Association! (now there’s…