“I’m a man”
And perhaps a Brawnier one than you might otherwise have thought, at that. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. No, not me — you […]
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Ron Coleman
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The generic agony of defeat
The best LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION® blog item title ever was evidently wasted — and I’m sorry I didn’t keep you quite so up to date […]
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Ron Coleman
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Good News: I Saved a Lot of Money on Litigation
Looking for the Geico v. Google decision? Here it is. More to come…. UPDATE: I didn’t exactly mean more litigation — but I guess we […]
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Ron Coleman
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Family planning
Here’s an intriguing item I picked up from the Intellectual Property News blog, which is run by Mansour & Asssociates*: Two of the world’s most […]
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South Korean court affirms ridiculous STARPREYA ruling
Michael Atkins gives us the post-mortem on this case that demonstrates what could delicately be called the home field advantage. Originally posted 2012-06-11 19:57:20. Republished […]
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Theologically misdescriptive
Talk about “scandalous and offensive” marks!: [P]hrases containing some form of “God” have been trademarked [sic] more than 3,400 times in the United States: “God […]
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Bayer v. Belmora (the “FLANAX case”) – Petition for rehearing en banc
Originally posted 2016-05-17 10:32:04. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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How Supreme Skateboard plays the edge
The new Case Clothesed blog out of New York Law School has a very interesting, if lightly sourced, piece about how Supreme Skateboard has managed for […]
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Mark-o! Polo!
Looks like somebody’s going to be ponying up: here’s the latest in the saga between the (old) rich (the U.S. Polo Assocation) and the (new) preposterously rich […]
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Continue reading » Keeping tabs on the worst
John Welch presents the “Ten Worst TTAB Decisions of 2007.” I love stuff like this! Originally posted 2013-06-11 12:05:04. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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Footlong trademark thing
What’s all this I hear about a trademark registration by Subway for FOOTLONG with respect to sandwiches? This is one of those other stories I […]
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Best of 2012: Bates and hooks
Bates numbering, that is. As a litigator, I’ve been living with Bates-numbering, or Bates-stamping, for over 20 years. (I’m not the only one!) I have […]
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Not Baidu enough
Baidu is another case in which the court declined to extend anything like a strict-liability standard for contributory infringement, in this case against a domain […]
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Jane Coleman
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Dough, a dear
The Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man wreaked some havoc in his time, but who would have thought that his inspiration — the Pillsbury Doughboy — would act […]
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