Whaddya know!
The Mustang Ranch trademark case has finally been resolved — and it turns out that prostitute proprietor Lance Gilman gets to claim the trademark for […]
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Ron Coleman
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The ultimate license
We’ve written before about the preposterous concept of asserting that stuff you buy and put into the trunk of your car and stick in a […]
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Ron Coleman
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Bakeries, bankruptcy, BUTTERNET and … bleh!
If the tone of my the title of this post sounds dismissive, it’s not quite that. It is, rather, just an admission that there are […]
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What’s your poison? Copyright infringement.
You’ve heard the tale in one form or another: A bar plays a recorded song over its sound system (without permission), then gets sued for […]
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Matthew David Brozik
Continue reading » Split decision
During my traditional end-of-December goof-off here I didn’t pay adequate attention to the important non-ruling in Costco v. Omega, which involves an issue I have […]
Written by: Ron Coleman
Continue reading » Color me infringing
Trademark law continues to slip from its moorings in subtle ways. From Inside Higher Ed (hat tip to its editor, Doug Lederman, for sending it […]
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Betty Boop all good
This development in the Betty Boop IP squabble is something else I should have written about last year, but, really, there was this whole year […]
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Color my world
For years I’ve been writing about the envelope-pushing in trademark by the business of collegiate sports. In a like vein, but very scholarly-like, here’s a […]
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“Dear Licensor”
Talk about “Dear John” letters! In the June issue of Royaltie$ magazine, Oliver Herzfeld (of Beanstalk) and Richard Bergovoy (of the Licensing Law Blog) sure […]
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Continue reading » Clever is as clever shifts fees
Richard Bergovoy: The only thing worse for a licensor than losing money when its licensee files for bankruptcy is paying attorneys’ fees on top of […]
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Mind bobbling!
I’ve been known to sound the alarm about the rush to register trademarks, and all the more so to register anticipated trademarks. I argue that […]
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