Ten years later…
Ron Coleman… and they’ve already forgotten!
Thanks for listening, Ecuador!
That’s it. That’s the post.
Not sweet enough
Surprising, really, that it took this long: “We recognize Aunt Jemima’s origins are based on a racial stereotype.” Aunt Jemima character and brand name being removed from all products. https://t.co/Gv0L73sntc…
More singularity: Still, er, screwed
I thought I covered all the things, all of them!, about trademarks these days in my recent “Trademark Singularity” Part One and Part Two posts — from functioning as a…
Burying 2(a) at the CIPLA
Matal v. Tam was highly influential in the subsequent Supreme Court case Iancu v. Brunetti, which also overturned the provisions of the Lanham Act prohibiting the registration of “immoral” and…
Immoral, scandalous and obsolete
"Trademarks" today are foisted on everyone, everywhere, all the time
Cigar-store repentance
< No one reading @likely2confuse in those days — it was a brand-new blog — and I did not anticipate that some day maybe a lot of people would, so…
Formerly live, still video
Check out my boys John Connell and Joel MacMull on a “live” (well, it was live; now it’s un-alive) Facebook video talking about some darned case and answering your darned…
The Slants: Denouement
Victory has a hundred fathers https://t.co/G9Z7QOVH8l — Likelihood ®© Blog (@likely2confuse) June 19, 2017 Now let’s name some of them. Because while I have many thoughts and learned many things…
Après Tam, le déluge? Nah.
I was speaking to a thoughtful, insightful person last night who asked me, “What if Simon Tam wins in Lee v. Tam and Section 2(a)’s disparagement bar is struck down,…
“Rock ‘n Roll, Redskins & Free Speech”
I have tried not to overload the blog with media coverage about our Supreme Court case involving THE SLANTS, but this is pretty ginchy:
It’s not a popularity contest (updated)
And the “popular vote” most certainly counts for nothing. Having said that, here’s the raw tally of amicus merits briefs — pro-, con- and meh- — in Lee v. Tam,…
A basket of Lee v. Tam briefs
I was going to do a post collecting all the briefs filed in the United States Supreme Court in Lee v. Tam (“THE SLANTS”), but thanks to a nice blog…