Berry Good News
Reuters “reports“: Research In Motion Ltd. [RIM] shares rose on Monday after recent U.S. patent office and court decisions were seen strengthening the BlackBerry maker’s... Read more
Category: LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®
“Life is Not Fair”
“Everyone knows” how stupid intelligent design is. Therefore, it’s a really bad thing to publish a peer-reviewed article by a proponent of the theory, right?... Read more
Snort that ‘za
“Opinion polls show that many consumers in Lithuania identify the pleasure of eating pizza with our trademark,” said Mindaugas Gumauskas, marketing director of the Cilija... Read more
Trademark doomsday on Facebook
TechLaw is one of the gazillion places reporting on what Facebook is allowing trademark owners –owners of registered trademark , that is — to do... Read more
Counterfeit ethics
Susan Scafidi digs up a real winner: From the continuing annals of faux ethics comes an email from “Kim” — no further signature provided —... Read more
The 2007 Weblog Awards
LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION is a “finalist” in the Law Blogs category! Go figure! It says we get “badges.” I didn’t think I needed no stinkin’... Read more
Download it fast
Brian Ledbetter finds the mother of all copyright hornet’s nests on YouTube. He says it’s a masterpiece, too, but it’s only a matter of time... Read more
Imagine no gelt-crazy gazzilionaire no-talent Beatle widows (updated and bumped)
Till then, though, Yoko Ono is out there. UPDATE from Bill Patry (I added an explanatory link): John Lennon’s song “Imagine” is world famous, and... Read more
If thy IP right offend thee, pluck it out
Apropos the Campbell’s soup / Campbell’s campaign dustup of a week or so ago, Copywrite has a very good post — with pictures! (we love... Read more
AOL and blogging — uh, no.
Jacqui Cheng writes at Ars Technica that AOL, perhaps in many ways the cultural antithesis of the blogosphere as Internet companies go, is making the... Read more
The doomsday patent
National Public Radio: The U.S. atomic bomb was such a secret, scientists and engineers sometimes talked in code. It was the Manhattan Project, not “The... Read more
Senator Clinton? She rocks!
Or did she say “Xerox”?! Originally posted 2008-02-23 23:23:33. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Read more
No one Timesing this story?
The New York Times gets it… [T]he speed at which reputations are made and destroyed in the Internet age has changed the thinking about the... Read more
Bootlegs in the 21st century
Here [was] a great post from aTypical Joe [link gone now — what can I do?] about how bootleg concert recordings — unauthorized, that is... Read more