iForgot?
“Cisco lost rights to iPhone trademark last year, experts say” — on ZDNet.com. Could explain a lot. Originally posted 2014-09-08 18:10:28. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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Ron Coleman
Fair Use
Best of 2008: The Long and Rocky Road
This was first posted on May 7, 2008. Irvin Robbins, the co-founder of the Baskin-Robbins ice cream chain, died yesterday. Here’s how much time has passed since just about the time your blogger was born,…
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Ron Coleman
PTO invents perpetual spam machine
Patently-O publishes a rather ambitious patent application that could actually make that mainstay of PTO rejection fodder, perpetual motion machines, look quite reasonable: “Chris Roller wants exclusive right to the ethical use and financial gain…
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Free Expression
Mark their words
Jihad Watch and Atlas Shrugs — two websites run by friends of mine who have very clearly articulated views about Islamic radicalism, and controversial ones about what to do about it — are busy, and…
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Litigation
Belmora petition for rehearing en banc
The never-ending journey! Interesting issue here: Do federal courts borrow state statutes of limitation in Lanham Act cases, or only use them as a benchmark for assessing the issue of laches? Originally posted 2021-03-02 11:55:38….
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Mock smocks spur suit
The New York Post reports that Diane von Furstenberg is suing over knockoffs of her designer smock dress things: The famed designer thinks cheapie-fashion store Forever 21’s $32 “Sabrina” smock dress looks suspiciously similar to…
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LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®
Meet the Bloggers X
No, LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION® won’t be at The INTA this year and so I won’t be co-sponsoring Meet the Bloggers X. Actually, the second doesn’t necessarily follow from the first, does it? I could have…
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Ernie The Attorney: Blawg Review #72
Ernie The Attorney presents Blawg Review #72. He’s one of the pioneer law bloggers, or that’s how I’ve always seen him. He’s an interesting guy for a lawyer, whose last name is Svenson but who…
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Magnesium ad nauseum
Ryan Gile reports that it’s Coke vs. Pepsi on behalf of their sport-drink proxies, Gatorade and Powerade: Coke’s advertising . . . makes the claim that Gatorade is “missing two electrolytes” – calcium and magnesium…
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Costumes and Clothing
The dark side clouds everything
I am fascinated with IP disputes over costumes, and have written about a few of them. I have also linked to this piece by Bill Patry, which would seem to be the definitive treatment. It…
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Jones Day keeps chillin’
Public Citizen’s Paul Alan Levy reports: A few weeks ago, I commented on the efforts of mega law firm Jones Day to abuse trademark law to suppress articles it didn’t like on a real estate…
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What’s tweeting you lately?
I don’t know what that’s supposed to mean. I already said I’ve run out of Twitter-related puns. But you have to put something in for the title. I’m open to suggestions for future installments of…
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Counterfeiting & Piracy
Gibson continues its IP-based business plan
“You’re gonna have to face it, you’re addicted to law!” Well, that’s what the song always sounded like to me. When you’re a hammer… (and I do try to be a hammer!) … Surely the…
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LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®
Heard in the tweetosphere
Microblogging is all the new thing. Here is some of the topical microblogging I’ve done lately: I like creative phrases like this and think it is great that people sell clothing, hats, or masks displaying…
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