Trade dress

Too square

We all understood by now that under Wal-Mart, trade dress that is deemed to be “product packaging” — unlike “product configuration” — “may be inherently distinctive and therefore, registrable, without proof of acquired distinctiveness.” Now…

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Literature

All true

Ruling Imagination: (): I may be a minority, but I find it odd to think a literary character, rather than the work he appears in, can be copyrighted. Nonetheless, the judge hearing J.D. Salinger’s lawsuit seeking…

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Confusion ascendant

Jewish tradition teaches that on Tisha B’Av (the Ninth day of the month of Av) — which begins tonight — five national calamities occurred: Originally posted 2013-07-15 20:00:36. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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