Lawyer Ron Coleman on brands, the Internet & free speech
Defamation
Evan Brown sums up the legal issues as this case lights up the blogosphere, and then some. UPDATE: And then some more. UPDATE: It’s all over. Originally posted 2006-05-05 17:46:07. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Fashion Law
This is an important decision: The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has partially reversed the earlier ruling of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (full decision here) in Louis Vuitton…
You’d hardly think it possible any more. Frankly our sensibilities are too delicate to blog on this story, but that’s why there’s always the the Trademark Blog. Originally posted 2009-09-17 14:01:12. Republished by Blog Post…
Copyright Law
Mack Reed puts his finger on it — almost — in the Online Journalism Review: The Web has made unauthorized propagation of information — whether copyrighted or not — instantaneous and virtually irreversible. Videos are…
In the form of Blawg Review! Originally posted 2013-06-27 11:41:54. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Brand Management and Branding
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 / branding suicide. So obviously wrong. Originally posted 2005-09-21 13:47:23. Republished…
Genericness and Trademarks
Eric Johnson‘s Pixelization blog has a sweet insight into a sticky trademark mess that Hershey’s could be, theoretically, getting itself into: It’s a Hershey’s-brand three-compartment silicone muffin pan. When you bake muffins in this pan,…
Rights of Publicity and Personality
But mediation isn’t it — in the Jimi Hendrix vodka case, that is, which Mike Atkins has been all over since last year, as we reported back then. No settlement, says Mike now; back on…
CrunchGear: With Nuvio suing Garmin’s Nuviphone on fairly spurious grounds, let’s take a look at famous trademark wars of times past. A little more on the bit-sized scale than a survey of warfare, but decent…
Copyright Law
Attributor is a new program that online publishers can and do use to trace their verbal content across the Internet and see who is using how much of their stuff without paying or attributing. Reading…
Litigation
A little while I ago I uploaded, at J.D. Supra, the three days of trial transcripts from last year’s desert extravaganza, the Designer Skin v. S & L Vitamins trial. Which, er, technically speaking, I…
Entertainment Law
It’s going to be a very interesting landscape when the dust settles in the world of generative artificial intelligence through the proliferation of ChatGPT and beyond. (You’ll probably want to brush up on your advanced…
TradeMark Express runs down the latest in the horse race among the presidential candidates (and, it seems, those who want to profit somehow from their names) in the trademark registration sweepstakes. It’s a good and…
Keyword Advertising
Remember the GEICO v. Google case? My former law partner and long-time spouse Jane Coleman does. She’s writing a chapter on secondary trademark infringement liability for the second edition of a book on trademark counterfeiting now…