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Posted on September 18, 2022September 20, 2022 Politics

“Yes We Brand!”

Bloomberg News reports that “my generation”‘s President is every bit as thoroughly modern as you’d expect.  In other words, no unauthorized drawing down of his... Read more

Posted on April 2, 2022 Politics

Running on empty

Urk.  Remember when we told you the GOP was getting lousy IP advice?  It hasn’t gotten better: Singer, songwriter, liberal activist and now John McCain... Read more

Posted on March 9, 2022 Politics

Love means …

Jim Lindgren of the The Volokh Conspiracy writes (hat tip to Glenn Reynolds), a tad grudgingly, of a kinder, gentler left-wing Supreme Court nominee on... Read more

Carpe Donktum toddler meme
Posted on July 9, 2021July 9, 2021 Politics

Why can’t we all just meme along?

As it says in the tweet-within-a-tweet above, today the New York State Supreme Court dismissed all claims against our client, Logan Cook. He’s “Carpe Donktum,”... Read more

Posted on June 17, 2021 Free Expression Politics

Democrats seek to institute government monitoring of media

Already giddy with the power they expect to be delivered to them today, Democrats are promising to reinstate government control of public communication to insure... Read more

Posted on June 17, 2021 Politics

YouTube: Criticize Islam? Now that’s offensive.

Instapundit.com reports that an atheist contributor to YouTube whose anti-Christian rants raised nary a Google’d eyebrow had his plug pulled when he started tussling with... Read more

Posted on June 17, 2021 Politics

Obama-Biden on IP

Do IP lawyers and other aficionados of the abstract estate vote for presidential candidates based on their IP policies? That would be sick. But if... Read more

Posted on June 17, 2021 Politics

Which exit did we get off, again?

Well, maybe we’ve been too hard on the Democrats here at LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®.  Perhaps unlike the GOP, they’ve got good, progressive IP counsel out... Read more

Posted on June 17, 2021 Politics

Best of 2009: Properly classified — there’s no “significant doubt”

CORY DOCTOROW: Obama administration: releasing details of secret copyright treaty endangers”national security.” Er, what? Good question, Instapundit.  Click through — the original story is here, at... Read more

Posted on June 17, 2021 Politics

Trademark trouble for posturing peaceniks?

Harvey of IMAO is on top of what promises to be a huge — record-setting, perhaps — IP story: While attempting to create the world’s... Read more

2012: The IP Election - Infographic
Posted on June 17, 2021 Politics

The IP Election (Infographic)

I mentioned in an earlier post that I would revisit the issue of which presidential candidate was a “better IP” candidate. This is that visit.... Read more

Posted on June 17, 2021 Politics

More on the “secret copyright treaty”

Is it really that bad?  Last March I took a quick look at what some of the anti’s were saying, and focused mainly on the... Read more

Posted on June 2, 2021 Politics

Presidential Shysters?

[“Shysters” — now that’s one ugly word, no? Well, sometimes the truth is ugly. If this is how members of the bar distinguish themselves in the White... Read more

Posted on May 28, 2021 Politics

Power Line: Mary Mapes is a Year Late, and Way Short on Logic

The Powerline blog, appropriately, undertakes the definitive (if only preliminary) deconstruction and rebuttal of journalistic fraud Mary Mapes’s new revisionist history on the topic of... 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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