Betty Boop all good
This development in the Betty Boop IP squabble is something else I should have written about last year, but, really, there was this whole year... Read more
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It’s Not Infringement if You’re Just an Indexer?
Now the “your information wants to be free for me” crowd is, not surprisingly, lining up on the writers-vs.-Google litigation. The Holy One — no,... Read more
Best of 2009: “Intellectual property and its digestion”
This was first posted on February 20, 2009: Back and forth in in social networking space — once Facebook, I digest some key ingredients of... Read more
Art for IP’s sake
Or, rather, the opposite: Wendy Seltzer reports that a modified Google logo posted on April 20th, in the style of a Joan Miro painting and... Read more
A long blog thread’s journey INTA night
Now: I had mentioned that the Managing IP link I provided in the first INTA post alluded to some pretty interesting fireworks involving the “empty... Read more
Just not that INTA it
It felt like I could write a seven-part series about all the ideas I had in my head, driving me insane, about INTA 2012. Maybe... Read more
Keyword advertising law à la française
Google wins! LVMH wins! Only it’s the same case. And they’re on opposite sides. Is this as Euro-law thing? Something particularly Frankish? No, it’s an... Read more
Branding weirds language
Nancy Friedman reminds us how: “A brand is an adjective, not a verb” is one of the tenets of trademark law. It’s the reason Google’s... Read more
Sellout!
Yes, we’ve added Google ads (o’er on the right side). We generate a decent amount of traffic here, especially off searches relating to trademark law,... Read more
Gadget goes gonzo
Updated (see below) in September, 2011: Firefly Digital explains the vision behind their, um, trademarks — including the one they claim a little outfit called... Read more
Looking smarter
An interesting development on the search-engine trademark infringement beat: In a weird development that looked impossible two years back, search engine giant Google Inc. last... Read more
Sophisticated means not stupid. Not stupid means not likely to be confused.
Are we confused yet? The New York Law Journal reports on a recent Southern District of New York opinion which gave people with milliions of... Read more
Intellectual property and its digestion
Back and forth in in social networking space — I digest some key ingredients of intellectual property as it applies to famous burgers (reprinted with... Read more
Transamerica v. Moniker Online: When domain registrars go bad
[stextbox id=”info”] This is a summary and analysis of the decision in Transamerica Corp. v. Moniker Online Services, 672 F.Supp.2d 1353 (S.D. Fla. 2009), which... Read more