Costumes and Clothing
Couture in Court
Fabulous filings for fashionistas — and those who just want to look like them! Originally posted 2012-02-29 23:27:24. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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Ron Coleman
Costumes and Clothing
Blogging
A head of the game
Says Ed: Some ponder, “Are law blogs dying?” Others follow Blawg Review and know they’re not. Or at least that the answer is … negotiable. Hardly surprising, seeing as how the hostess this week is…
Written by: Ron Coleman
Copyright Law
The AP, copyright, and the bloggers
You can’t have missed the story, in all its agony. One weensy problem with the blogosphere: It’s so quick, so supple, so instantaneous, so plastic… that it is also reactive, and in its own way,…
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LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®
When you’re a hammer
The whole world is a nail. Now Marty Schwimmer isn’t a hammer, because he does trademarks and not patents, see. So this post connecting Michael Jackson and intellectual property is not proof that Michael Jackson’s…
Written by: Ron Coleman
IP Overreaching
Google down, boogy oogy oogy
Ben Charny at eWeek reports: “Google’s ‘Oogle’ Hunters Bag Another One.” What’s it all about? The magic of the double-o, reports Charny: Google’s Rose Hagan, senior trademark counsel, explained during an an interview that Google…
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Ron Coleman
Secondary Meaning
Famous marks doctrine dunked again
Las Vegas Trademark Attorney reports that the Second Circuit has taken the “advice” of the New York Court of Appeals and rendered a final decision in the BUKHARA “famous marks doctrine” case. Writing about the…
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Ron Coleman
All hail marks of Lennon!
Item: Yoko Ono Sues “Lennon” for Trademark Dilution. UPDATE: Somehow, you know, the Elvis Presley estate survived Elvis Costello! UPDATE: Says the Widow Lennon: Oh, no! Originally posted 2008-02-13 01:05:32. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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Free Expression
Plugging leaks
[Here’s a blast from the past — RDC]: In the New York Times: In a move that legal experts said could present a major test of First Amendment rights in the Internet era, a federal…
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Patent medicine
Victoria Pynchon collects and reflects on some of the recent thinking about whether patent litigation makes any sense for anyone besides patent ligitators. Originally posted 2012-08-15 16:49:13. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Written by: Ron Coleman
Roundups
Review Blawg Review
Edition number 98, right here. Originally posted 2014-12-24 07:50:42. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Written by: Ron Coleman
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 last summer’s Dan Rather “fake but accurate” moment. It was…
Written by: Ron Coleman
Fair Use
Trademark parodies and iconic marks: can foul become fair?
In 2010 I wrote this post about a now-notorious case, eventually ensconced as Louis Vuitton Malletier, S.A. v. Hyundai Motor America, 2012 WL 1022247 (S.D.N.Y., March 22, 2012) and covered intensely (as the links there…
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LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®
In your head
Rebecca Tushnet: Trademark dilution is a cause of action for interfering with the uniqueness of a trademark. For example, consumers would probably not think that “Kodak soap” was produced by the makers of Kodak cameras,…
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Brand Management and Branding
Best of 2008: Cowboy rules
First posted June 24, 2008. From the National Post, trademark news about a lawsuit brought by New York’s charming Naked Cowboy against the makers of M&M’s and its ad agency. The story is in Canadian,…
Written by: Ron Coleman