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Posted on February 23, 2023February 24, 2023 Law Practice and Profession

Judges aren’t known for their sense of humor… about judges

John (Keeping Tabs on the TTAB®) Welch reports on the unsurprising conclusion that sarcasm doesn’t work better at the Trademark Trial and Appeals Board than... Read more

Posted on February 20, 2023 Law Practice and Profession

Schaden-Fraud?

John Welch has once again updated his Fraud-O-Meter! Behind this clever Infographic-type thingy is a report of a meaningful legal development concerning the concept of... Read more

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Posted on January 26, 2023January 29, 2023 Law Practice and Profession

Not Hiring, but…

I (in my role as head of a small law firm) do get a lot of letters and emails of inquiry. It’s interesting to see... Read more

Posted on January 21, 2023January 23, 2023 Law Practice and Profession

Linked for eternity

When 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... Read more

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Posted on January 14, 2023January 23, 2023 Law Practice and Profession

Mix ‘n’ match

The thing about lawyer jokes — besides the fact that they’re never funny when you all of a sudden have to call one of us... Read more

Posted on November 2, 2022 Law Practice and Profession

Bad moments in lawyer advertising

Above the Law reports: Belluck & Fox is a nine-attorney law firm in Manhattan. The firm worked out a deal with the radio station that... Read more

Posted on October 14, 2022 Law Practice and Profession

Not my money

Last June, blogging about my presentation to the Copyright Society on the Righthaven litigation, I wrote the following: This brings us to the issue of... Read more

Posted on October 12, 2022 Law Practice and Profession

Zombies in Las Vegas?

Ryan Gile reports on an odd ruling that just could — however unlikely — result in some degree of reanimation of Righthaven, of all things:... Read more

Posted on September 3, 2022 Law Practice and Profession

Name that geek

Dennis Crouch of the Patently-O blog did a cool little experiment. A professor of law at Boston University and a practicing patent lawyer, he’d be... Read more

Posted on August 29, 2022September 8, 2022 Law Practice and Profession

Kick in the head

David Nieporent brings our attention to Overlawyered: “The Microsoft of kickball”: As David points out, this is really stupid.  But yes, there is kickball for... Read more

Posted on July 4, 2022 Law Practice and Profession

Let it flow

The Invent Blog® reports on the latest fashion (and maybe a good idea) for IP lawyers: Flowcharts on IP for Clients to help them understand... Read more

Posted on June 10, 2022 Law Practice and Profession

New York ethics rules do not destroy blogs as we know them

Probably not, anyway.  We were all upset and flustered over the proposed new rules.  As actually enacted, they were considerably more mild and don’t seem... Read more

Posted on May 29, 2022 Law Practice and Profession

Best of 2008: Other People’s Money

First published January 8, 2008. WSJ.com’s Law Blog reports about the seven-figure effect in the Central District of California for a one-minute-late filing: A judgment in... Read more

Posted on May 22, 2022 Law Practice and Profession

“Go Home”: Why law school was probably a bad idea

Oddly enough, I got a “request” for an article I once wrote in Student Lawyer magazine in a comment here. The point of the article was... 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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