Skip to content
LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™

LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™

Ron Coleman on the law affecting brands, the Internet & free speech

  • Legal standards for likelihood of confusion
  • 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
    • 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

Category: LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®

Posted on November 11, 2006February 6, 2008 LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®

Hobnobbing with the power boys

We’ve been blogrolled by the Hobnobblog (three b’s there), a commercial blog for The Capitol Net, a company that does Washingtonish things.  I don’t look... Read more

Posted on October 23, 2006November 1, 2006 LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®

China may roll back blog anonymity

I wrote a few weeks ago that perhaps the most compelling novelty of the power of the Internet is not the virtual absence of barriers... Read more

Posted on October 19, 2006October 19, 2006 LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®

Legal Terms – A Quick Guide

To inaccuracy, that is. Two howlers: Intellectual Property: A product or idea that has tangible commercial value. * * * Trademark: A name, label or... Read more

Posted on October 16, 2006February 6, 2008 LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®

Egorati gets a spin

The New York Times catches onto Technorati. Read more

Posted on October 5, 2006October 5, 2006 LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®

INTA on Initial Interest Confusion

The work of my INTA subcommittee, on an issue raised by me (and followed through on mostly by others): INTA – Initial Interest Confusion September... Read more

Posted on September 30, 2006April 6, 2009 LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®

Google search results not a trademark infringement

Mercury News reports: A federal judge granted Google a significant victory Thursday, ruling that the search engine did not violate federal law when it sold... Read more

Posted on September 8, 2006September 10, 2006 LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®

Pod people paid

We’ve written about Apple’s attempt to command the “pod space” in terms of trademark by the transmission of aggressive cease and desist letters. Now it... Read more

Posted on September 1, 2006September 5, 2006 LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®

Abovethelaw.com

New mandatory blog for federal litigators (including, of course, trademark and copyright practitioners) and others interested in the world of Big Law. David Lat, formerly... Read more

Posted on August 19, 2006February 6, 2008 LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®

Who owns NYC cop’s 9/11 pictures?

Here’s a somewhat interesting copyright battle, courtesy of Gothamist: A former NYPD detective tapped to take Ground Zero photos by disgraced former Police Commissioner Bernard... Read more

Posted on August 14, 2006August 19, 2006 LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®

Trying to Google the genie back into the bottle

The UK Independent reports that Google is waking up to its Google-as-verb problem. Here’s a similar report in the Washington Post. Why did Google wait... Read more

Posted on August 9, 2006February 6, 2008 LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®

Heck of a disappointment

Somehow the words “Meat Loaf” and “settle” belong together, but here it’s another sad litigation settlement, another juicy lawsuit undercooked. Read more

Posted on July 28, 2006December 1, 2009 LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®

The Internet is different

New unconstitutional legislation that no one would ever dream of drafting regarding any other medium is in the hopper, via Legal Fixation. UPDATE:  Evan Brown... Read more

Posted on July 26, 2006July 26, 2006 LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®

2006 Technology & Computer Law Conference (NJ)

I will be part of a panel, along with a number of distinguished colleagues, at the above-named program of New Jersey’s Institute for Continuing Legal... Read more

Posted on July 4, 2006July 4, 2006 LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®

‘Crazy’ or just wishful thinking?

An attempt to sell the famous (to New Yorkers) Crazy Eddie trademark on eBay was manifestly unsuccesful, it seems. It’s a serious question what you’d... Read more

Posts navigation

← 1 … 26 27 28 29 30 →
  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • Instagram
  • Corporate Censorship in Social Media and a Role for the States

Ron Coleman of the DHILLON LAW GROUP

Click the pic for more information - admitted in New York and New Jersey

This blog

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.

PODCAST

ColemanNation

Commercial, Trademark and Free Speech Litigation at DHILLON LAW GROUP

https://youtu.be/iC2nZPc_THs

LIKELIHOOD OF ACCUMULATION

CATEGORIES (Still in progress…)

DISCLAIMER

THIS BLOG IS ONLY A BLOG, NOT LEGAL ADVICE. IT IS IN PART AN ADVERTISEMENT FOR LEGAL SERVICES BY RONALD D. COLEMAN, AN ATTORNEY ADMITTED IN NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY ONLY, WHO IS NOT YOUR LAWYER. YOU ARE NOT HIS CLIENT. JUST WALK BESIDE HIM AND BE HIS FRIEND.

This is my very special privacy policy.

THIS WEBSITE MAY BE CONSIDERED ATTORNEY ADVERTISING, DAMN IT

Tweets by likely2confuse
© 2022 LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™