Category: LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®

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

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

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

The New York Times catches onto Technorati. Read more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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