Leo the Loser
John Welch keeps us up to date on the latest smashing adventures of trademark gadfly and general pain in the caboose Leo Stoller.
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Confusion Dispelled
Last spring, I got a comment on the blog from a gentleman named Bunker Mulligan. I don’t get a lot of comments, which isn’t surprising; […]
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Continue reading » Anti-Sedition Act At Risk on New Supreme Court
Via Committee for Justice, the Wall Street Journal reports (sub. required; the article is however reprinted in whole at the Committee for Justice link) Bush […]
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Continue reading » Power Line: Mary Mapes is a Year Late, and Way Short on Logic
The Powerline blog, appropriately, undertakes the definitive (if only preliminary) deconstruction and rebuttal of journalistic fraud Mary Mapes’s new revisionist history on the topic of […]
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Jeeves Gets the Pink Slip
The Street reports that “IAC/InterActiveCorp. is dropping the butler who doubles as the mascot of its recently acquired Ask Jeeves online search business.” Trademark / […]
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Hit the Road, JACK
Media Week reports that a company called SparkNet Communications sued a rival broadcasting outfit in May for infringing its trademark on stations in St. Louis, […]
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Continue reading » Re-Think IP at the Carnival of the Capitalists
Check out the Carnival of the Capitalists – Rethink(IP) Edition.
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American Graffiti
Graffiti: Art or crime? And by crime, I don’t mean mere vandalism. I mean criminally bad legal-decision-making. The New York Law Journal reports: On July […]
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Continue reading » Cleaning Up, or Getting Their Clocks Cleaned?
I stumbled on this article in Slate and it seemed to contradict my point in one of my favorite posts. On reflection I realized that […]
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Continue reading » Vacation Justified!
If the news cycle gets slow enough, anyone can get quoted on the Internet! Plus, if you clicked on the throwaway at the bottom of […]
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Continue reading » Reverse Trademark Dilution?
Trademark dilution is something that happens when you use my “famous” trademark in a way that, while not necessarily threatening likelihood of confusion — because […]
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Continue reading » We Who Were There Salute You in Our Leisure Suits
IP … trademarks … branding … design … interior design … awful interior design of the 1970’s! Maybe I don’t have to sweat topicality after […]
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Continue reading » The Potential Hazzards of Putting up Yer Dukes
So many strands of America in our time converge in this story, regarding which I predict some sort of IP dustup: “Cooter” was evidently the […]
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