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
Category: 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
Sheppard Mullins’s Copyright Top Ten List
The big law firm‘s sleepy but snazzy Intellectual Property Law Blog lists “The Top Ten Ways Copyright Law Can Mess Up Your Transaction.” I link... Read more
More fair use follies: copyright infringement by court filing?
Evan Brown reports (links added): The parties in the matter of Shell v. Devries, a case from the U.S. District Court for the District of... Read more
Last chance to save democracy, LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION
I know, I know — redundant. So in that spirit, I am reprinting part of what I wrote about this a couple of weeks ago,... Read more
Stacking the deck
The National Law Journal, understandably skeptical about the U.S. News rankings, does its own analysis. UPDATE: Huh! And they aren’t the only ones: For many... Read more
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... Read more
Search or destroy
The Cincinnati Enquirer reports this chilling story: A local attorney and instructor in legal studies at the University of Cincinnati’s Clermont College has been hit... Read more
When an Issue of First Impression Makes a Bad One
Have you ever read a decision and just marveled at the apparent restraint of the judges? “Why don’t they tell this party to shut up?”... Read more
America’s trademark litigation gravy train – the Bratz / Barbie case is back!
I can’t claim to be keeping close tabs on what’s going on in the Barbie / Bratz trademark litigation. But lookie here: A federal appeals... Read more
J.D. Supra, Facebook …. and the Word
Bob Ambrogi: The document-sharing site JD Supra is launching an application for Facebook today that lets its members stream their documents and professional profile information... Read more
Best of 2011: Talking the talk
First posted August 7, 2011. The Android talk, that is. Tech News World asked me a couple of days ago about whether it wasn’t pretty unusual... Read more
Abhoring a vacuum
Rebecca Tushnet’s 43(B)log writes about a recent decision in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York — “Nothing sues like an... Read more