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Grand Old Persecution

Posted on October 25, 2012 by Ron Coleman

Paul Alan Levy sends this along: The latest abuse of trademark law to suppress discussion of topics of substantial public interest comes from not from […]

Politics

Arnold Palmer and the Perfect Brand

Posted on March 4, 2020 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2013-11-11 10:39:03. Republished by Blog Post PromoterAs seen in the Benny Goodman case in the TTAB, celebrity, brand power and trademark rights may outlive a […]

Rights of Publicity and Personality

Justice Served Cold

Posted on May 29, 2014 by Matthew David Brozik

When I was in law school, my trademark law seminar instructor was a practicing lawyer who has his share of war stories, some involving actual […]

Counterfeiting & Piracy

Best of 2013: Arnold Palmer and the Perfect Brand

Posted on January 3, 2014 by Ron Coleman

As seen in the Benny Goodman case in the TTAB, celebrity, brand power and trademark rights may outlive a celebrity’s peak performing years, but will bear fruit only […]

Rights of Publicity and Personality

Confusion Dispelled

Posted on March 3, 2020 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2013-09-04 18:28:51. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Originally posted in September 2005. Minor edits made in September 2012. In the spring of […]

Everything else

Running on empty

Posted on January 29, 2020 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2008-08-14 18:38:00. Republished by Blog Post PromoterUrk. Remember when we told you the GOP was getting lousy IP advice? It hasn’t gotten better: […]

Politics

Judging the ABA

Posted on November 6, 2019 by Ron Coleman

The ABA, like most national organizations of its kind, has evolved to serve the preferences of those at the organization’s power nodes who are at once most activist and least professional.

Law Practice and Profession

Nominative fair use: The Second Circuit names names

Posted on November 2, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2016-05-18 19:18:59. Republished by Blog Post PromoterNominative fair — the “unauthorized” use of a trademark as a trademark specifically to invoke the trademark, […]

Fair Use

Blawg Review #325.10

Posted on October 17, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2013-11-03 23:05:00. Republished by Blog Post PromoterWelcome to Blawg Review #325 — 325-and-a-tenth, to be exact. Presumably you got here from here. So […]

Roundups

Birthday Marty

Posted on September 20, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2008-05-27 17:38:22. Republished by Blog Post PromoterJohn Welch: Marty Schwimmer’s Trademark Blog turns six years old this month. Marty is the grandfather of […]

LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®

The Fourth Circuit goes One Worlder on us

Posted on September 18, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2016-03-29 22:53:48. Republished by Blog Post PromoterQuestion: If Marty Schwimmer, John Welch, and LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION® all agree on something — besides Meet […]

Trademarks and trademark law

Oy, Tenenbaum

Posted on July 15, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2011-10-04 18:43:04. Republished by Blog Post PromoterA while ago I wrote a little piece linking to Doug Lichtman’s exploration of the Tenenbaum copyright case, […]

Damages

“Tolerated use”

Posted on March 30, 2018 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2014-03-14 10:40:58. Republished by Blog Post PromoterTim Wu (via Glenn Reynolds) says that we have to deal with the fuzzy logic of copyright […]

Enforcement

When Dot Com really can make a trademark (Best of 2017)

Posted on January 1, 2018 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted on September 8, 2017.In an important new ruling, Booking.com B.V. v. Matal, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia — on an […]

Genericness and Trademarks

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