Skip to content
  • Home
  • Gavin McInnes v. SPLC
  • Solas v. Town of South Kingstown
  • Contact
  • More
    • Disney v DeSantis decision
    • Carson Griffith vs. The Daily Beast
    • Corporate Censorship in Social Media and a Role for the States
    • Opposition brief of Gavin McInnes to motion to dismiss by SPLC
    • Pardon Ari Teman – My letter to the President
    • I’m high-ranked and I know it
    • My September 11th
    • The Endless Summer: Student Lawyer magazine, March 1989
    • Asymmetric Cultural Warfare
    • The Fashion Law blogger disclosures
    • S & L Vitamins / Sagarin v. Australian Gold / Designer Skin
    • Ronald D. Coleman | Litigation Lawyer
    • BOBOV trademark protest letter
    • Blawg Review #2 (April 17, 2005)
    • Ron Coleman panel presentations — Last 10 as of July 14, 2017
  • Standards for likelihood of confusion
    • Likelihood of confusion in the Third Circuit
    • Likelihood of confusion: 2d Circuit
    • Likelihood of confusion in the Federal Circuit
  • Publications
    • Play-Doh’s trademark registration passes the smell test
    • Statutory damages in copyright cases
    • Social Media and Proving Secondary Meaning
    • Bully for Who? How trademark bullying works
    • Motions to Dismiss the Complaint
    • Bloggers, Journalists, Reporting and Privilege
    • Slants, Redskins and other “Disparaging” Trademarks
    • New York’s Declaratory Judgment Insurance Trap
    • Trademark, Copyright, and the Internet: Time to Return Balance to Civil Litigation
    • Hands off blogs: Mandatory disclosure of “blogola”?
    • Policy and Constitutional Problems with Section 2(a) of the Lanham Act
    • “Initial Interest Confusion”: Compounding the Error
    • Prudential Standing: Who is ‘Any Person’ Under the Lanham Act?
    • When Young Lawyers Meet Ancient Law
    • Managing Risk: Litigation Prophylaxis in High-Tech Agreements
    • Hacker with a White Hat
    • Depositions and Wrongful Profits in Infringement Cases: Cornering Your Prey with Rule 30(b)(6)
    • A Theory of Trademarks in the Blog Era
    • Court Nixes Fees for Fact Witnesses
    • Copycats on the Superhighway
    • Civil Disclosures (ABA Journal)
  • Privacy Policy
  • Video

LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™

Lawyer Ron Coleman on brands, the Internet & free speech

LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™

Lawyer Ron Coleman on brands, the Internet & free speech

  • Home
  • Video
  • Publications
    • Play-Doh’s trademark registration passes the smell test
    • Social Media and Proving Secondary Meaning
    • Slants, Redskins and other “Disparaging” Trademarks
    • Bully for Who? How trademark bullying works
    • Copycats on the Superhighway
    • Prudential Standing: Who is ‘Any Person’ Under the Lanham Act?
    • Hacker with a White Hat
    • Trademark, Copyright, and the Internet: Time to Return Balance to Civil Litigation
    • Hands off blogs: Mandatory disclosure of “blogola”?
    • Bloggers, Journalists, Reporting and Privilege
    • “Initial Interest Confusion”: Compounding the Error
  • More
    • Privacy Policy
    • Opposition brief of Gavin McInnes to motion to dismiss by SPLC
    • Disney v DeSantis decision
    • Statutory damages in copyright cases
    • A Theory of Trademarks in the Blog Era
    • Managing Risk: Litigation Prophylaxis in High-Tech Agreements
    • I’m high-ranked and I know it
    • The Endless Summer: Student Lawyer magazine, March 1989
    • Asymmetric Cultural Warfare
    • Blawg Review #2 (April 17, 2005)
    • Copycats on the Superhighway
    • The Endless Summer: Student Lawyer magazine, March 1989
  • Motions to Dismiss
  • Bio and Contact
    • Home
    • LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®
    • Page 2
LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®

Wired for trouble

Ron Coleman Oct 3, 2018 0 Comments

Via Twitter: I’m a trademark attorney and @WIRED absolutely has a claim for trademark infringement here. They registered the name in 1994, filed in 1992. SOURCES is a descriptive word,…

LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®

Out to launch

Ron Coleman May 3, 2015 0 Comments

The glamour of the jet age! It can only get better when LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION® touches down soon at #INTA2015! pic.twitter.com/aG7AA7YDGT — Likelihood TM Blog (@likely2confuse) May 3, 2015

LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®

Ten years of CONFUSION

Ron Coleman Jan 13, 2015 4 Comments

I had grand plans, in my head, for this post noting the tenth anniversary (I think people stopped saying “blogiversary,” thankfully) of LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®. I am very pleased to…

LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®

Meet the Bloggers X

Ron Coleman May 6, 2014 1 Comments

No, LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION® won’t be at The INTA this year and so I won’t be co-sponsoring Meet the Bloggers X. Actually, the second doesn’t necessarily follow from the first,…

LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®

Beware the Ides of December!

Ron Coleman Dec 16, 2013 0 Comments

Or Beethoven’s birthday — either way, this is the time of year when, without prejudice to new posts that may bubble to the surface as the torrid flow of events…

LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®

Oy, my aching blog

Ron Coleman Aug 15, 2013 0 Comments

I’m back. The blog was offline for the better part of this week because of technical problems — the accumulated effects of database stuff, scars from old hacks and, it…

LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®

Likelihood of Extrusion

Ron Coleman Mar 25, 2013 0 Comments

Reprinting my annual Passover post, adjusted for days of the week as they come out this year: I was hit by pre-Passover preparations over the last week, and in between…

LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®

Feed me

Ron Coleman May 10, 2012 3 Comments

Note to RSS subscribers: In response to a special request from the one known RSS subscriber to LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®, I have switched on full-boat, broad-gauged feeding. Um, in other…

LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®

A trademark lawyer’s got to loy… er

Ron Coleman Dec 7, 2011 2 Comments

Discussing trademark law blogging with a colleague last night, I was asked whether I’d written anything about the EAT MORE KALE story. In order to excuse my laziness, I said,…

LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®

Thanks to nothing?

Ron Coleman Nov 24, 2011 0 Comments

Originally published at Dean’s World, Thanksgiving 2006: A million essays and blog posts will explore the topic of “being thankful” in the next 24 hours. I’d say, based on a…

LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®

Thanks to nothing? (Archive post)

Ron Coleman Nov 24, 2011 0 Comments

Originally published at Dean’s World, Thanksgiving 2006: A million essays and blog posts will explore the topic of “being thankful” in the next 24 hours. I’d say, based on a…

LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®

What “Beating Righthaven” means

Ron Coleman Nov 3, 2011 27 Comments

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 the norm of providing…

Law Practice and Profession LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®

Whole lot of litigation

Ron Coleman Oct 24, 2011 1 Comments

It’s just me, just saying. In the last month I’ve been, as we say, underwater with both religious observances and litigation. A whole lot of litigation — cases in state…

LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®

What happened to the blogroll?

Ron Coleman Jun 13, 2011 0 Comments

Um, the blogroll … ran away. No, that doesn’t mean I had it “put to sleep.” Not quite. It really did run away — to here: THE LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®…

Posts pagination

1 2 3 … 29

« Previous Page — Next Page »

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.

This is attorney advertising. Lawyer Ronald D. Coleman is admitted to practice in New York and New Jersey.

For more information click here.

You Missed

Free Expression Section 2(a)

Ten years later…

Everything else

How to Escape the Clutches of Someone with Narcissism

LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®

New video series: Law Learnin’ Wednesdays

Use as a Trademark

Trademark: “From The River to the Sea”?

LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™

Lawyer Ron Coleman on brands, the Internet & free speech

© Copyright 2022 Blogus. All Rights Reserved. by Themeansar

  • Legal standards for likelihood of confusion
Loading Comments...