A Mickey Mouse confession.
Has it really been fifteen years since the Copyright Term Extension Act was signed into law? (It has. President Clinton signed the bill on October... Read more
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Best of 2013: A bunch of WHARTON business
First published August 16, 2013. Steve Baird — redoubtable Steve Baird — has a great post about a bunch of trademark business involving claims by... Read more
Absolutely flawed
Michael Atkins, the estimable Seattle Trademark Lawyer (true, there are others!), writes on the subject both Matthew and I have written about at length here:... Read more
A bunch of WHARTON business
Steve Baird — redoubtable Steve Baird — has a great post about a bunch of trademark business involving claims by the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton... Read more
More bad news for reporters seeking exemption from laws
The AP reports: A federal judge told two San Francisco Chronicle reporters they must comply with a subpoena and tell a grand jury who leaked... Read more
“Inside Straight” on blogging for lawyers
Some of my best (online-who-I-never-met-but-believe-me-they-have-your-back) friends among legal bloggers don’t believe in legal blogging at all. For example, Scott Greenfield both excels at it and... Read more
Dot-xxx: The Rosy Dawn of a New Blue Era
We all knew this day would come, even if not everyone wanted it to: The sponsored top-level domain .xxx is up and running, although addresses... Read more
Garbage in, garbage out
I moan constantly about Congress’s refusal to do its job and make policy decisions about trademark and copyright via legislation that reflect the technological and... Read more
Not So Plain Dealing
Instapundit links to this teef-gnashing item from Michael Silence about this super-secret scandal, based on leaked documents, that the Cleveland Plain Dealer would for sure... Read more
The fairest one of all?
Last week we were talking about the issue of copyright morphing into trademark. Well, how about public domain morphing into copyright, and then trademark?... Read more
Lowenstein story
This morning I attended a breakfast seminar on insurance issues relating to technology, two areas of my interest and practice, sponsored by Lowenstein Sandler PC,... Read more
A Court of Very Little Brain?
No, just the Ninth Circuit, in this case denying the appeal in the Winnie the Pooh litigation over the IP and licensing rights of the... Read more
BOBOV trademark protest letter
September 19, 2006 Administrator for Trademark Identifications, Classifications and Practice Commissioner for Trademarks P.O. Box 1451 Alexandria, Virginia 22313-1451 Re: Serial numbers 78614104, 78622413, 78622405,... Read more