Best Law Blog – The 2007 Weblog Awards
There are all these people doing blogs about law, it seems. Nominate, vote, electioneer for “Best Law Blog – The 2007 Weblog Awards here.” Originally... Read more
Category: LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®
Tweets are microblogging.
As I have written so many times, what used to qualify as a “short post” back when the edgiest form of social media was blogging... Read more
Copyright is good for you. But not for me.
Everyone steals a little copyright, right? Well, even if so, you perhaps shouldn’t if you’re pitching enhanced use of copyright. At least not so stupidly. ... Read more
What “Beating Righthaven” means
Instapundit links to Donald Douglas’s blog post, Beating Righthaven. Excerpt: Righthaven files “no warning” lawsuits. That is, it gives no advance notification to defendants, which violates... Read more
Wikipedia ends world; entry on world locked down
The Wall Street Journal asks, “Will Wikipedia Mean the End Of Traditional Encyclopedias?” It’s a debate between Wikipedia and Brittanica, if you can just imagine... Read more
Dean’s World – Judgment Day
I have withdrawn as a contributor from Dean’s World, which has been a tremendous experience and great for promoting LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION. The tumult over... Read more
Three’s a charm
Today marks the third “blogiversary” (ugh!) of LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®! Kudos to bRight & Early blog for reminding me by linking here, and, as I... Read more
“Stealth marketing” and IP
Eric Goldman writes about the regulation of “Stealth” Marketing, which I talked about in its application to blogs both here, in my dismissal of the... Read more
Diluting dilution
Michael Atkins says, “Here we go again”: With the Northern District of California’s understandable decision this week in Phase Forward Inc. v. Adams (STL post... Read more
A free market moment
Stephen Laniel finds, in trademark law, reason not to throw the whole thing over: The public-health justification for trademark law is pretty clear: if the... Read more
Bull market
Are trademark filings really an economic indicator? This is from the Philadelphia Inquirer (via David Ardia, who cites Marty.) Glenn Gundersen . . . [a] trademark and copyright lawyer at... Read more
Bad career planning, email department
What do they say about the guys who talk about doing it the most? Well, we might need a new rule for guys who email... Read more
Eating my words
I do it sometimes. In my case, they’re particularly tasty, and sometimes even tasteful. Definitely not tasteful, not tasty — not even edible, if “kosher”... Read more