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Category: Law Practice and Profession

Posted on May 14, 2014May 21, 2014 Law Practice and Profession

Talking the talk

The Android talk, that is.  Tech News World asked me a couple of days ago about whether it wasn’t pretty unusual to see parties to litigation... Read more

Posted on April 9, 2014December 28, 2014 Law Practice and Profession

Patent jobs

Dennis Crouch has them now, if you like that sort of thing. Law blogs and legal recruiting — perfect together! Read more

Posted on August 15, 2013December 27, 2016 Law Practice and Profession

Dozier Internet Law: The Internet’s loose legal cannon

They’re back: A Virginia lawyer used intimidation and bullying tactics, including spurious trademark infringement and defamation claims, to shut down a Web site that criticized... Read more

Posted on June 21, 2013June 27, 2013 Law Practice and Profession

Pleading the kitchen sink

Is it true that, when it comes to pleadings, including both affirmative claims and affirmative defenses, you can’t go wrong by including more — indeed,... Read more

Posted on May 9, 2013December 13, 2016 Law Practice and Profession

It’s fun to stay at the U-N-T-A!

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... Read more

Posted on April 23, 2013April 23, 2015 IP Institutions Law Practice and Profession

Meet the Bloggers – INTA, Dallas, 2013!

What else is there to say? Of course you’re invited! Read more

Ron Coleman on the Law School Bubble - Mishpacha magazine
Posted on November 29, 2012September 21, 2019 Law Practice and Profession

The law school crackup

I haven’t written a super whole bunch about the question of attending law school here lately, but I have written. But then there’s what Elie... Read more

Posted on July 24, 2012July 31, 2012 Law Practice and Profession

Hackers with Grey Hats

Two different sources alerted me to this story that is near and dear. That link to Shlashdot comes from my friend at the Sapiens Cogito... Read more

Posted on February 29, 2012May 2, 2014 Law Practice and Profession

The “Rube Goldberg” of sanctions motions

Woodrow Pollock reports on the “the Rube Goldberg” of sanctions motions in an IP case — a skein of intertwined Rule 11 motions, counter-motions and what-have-you’s over... Read more

Posted on November 16, 2011November 16, 2011 Law Practice and Profession

Email this!

I don’t know which is the more important block quote of the two in this post by Pamela Chestek, the one I am about to... Read more

Posted on September 13, 2011September 19, 2011 Law Practice and Profession

2004: A Year of Musical Chairs for IP Law Bigshots

There’s a very good roundup of the major changes in the landscape of the big-time IP (read: pretty much patents) practice, including the evaporation of... Read more

Posted on November 19, 2009February 24, 2015 Law Practice and Profession

Lowenstein story

This morning I attended a breakfast seminar on insurance issues relating to technology, two areas of my interest and practice, sponsored by Lowenstein Sandler PC,... Read more

Posted on November 16, 2008January 18, 2016 Law Practice and Profession

Fool’s gold

The Internet changes everything right? Not this: A fool and his money — especially the kind paid to consultants — are still soon parted: Pre-Internet,... Read more

Posted on October 31, 2006February 24, 2015 Law Practice and Profession

Love is blue. Litigation is love. Litigation is war. Love is war. War is Blue.

The fallacy, of course, is not only in affirming the consequent plus no small amount of equivocation, but in the probable falsehood of the second... 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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