Lawyer Ron Coleman on brands, the Internet & free speech
Reuters “news service” “reports,” astutely: “Where judges once were more likely to accept that incompetence or computer problems might be to blame, they are now apt to rule that noncompliance is an indication a company…
Trademarks and trademark law
No. No!!! The Eagles are suing the owners of a Mexican hotel named Hotel California, claiming it’s capitalizing off the band’s hit song of the same name. The band filed a federal trademark infringement lawsuit…
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Brand Management and Branding
Advertising Age reports: “Costly Red Campaign Reaps Meager $18 Million.” Walking around New York City, I was impressed with the brand-development demonstrated by this $100 million campaign. Famous, beautiful people in Red Gap stuff, telling…
Culture Clash
The statutory copyright damages awards merry-go-round Thomas-Rasset circus is not the only case that seems to be stuck in an infinitely-recurring loop. As Pamela Chestek explains, “the STOLICHNAYA case [has] end[ed] again.” The bad news is it’s…
Priority of Use and Trademarks
Here’s an intriguing item I picked up from the Intellectual Property News blog, which is run by Mansour & Asssociates*: Two of the world’s most well known car manufacturers are going head to head over…
Enforcement
Here I thought I understood something about the Lanham Act. But wait, there’s more! Did you know this?: The purpose of the Lanham Act is to protect registered and valid copyrights, trademarks, and patents. That’s from…
Free Expression
Chutzpa! Originally posted 2014-04-24 11:15:03. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Copyright Law
How can a statute of limitations for copyright infringement bar a state law claim for an accounting of profits between co-authors brought under diversity jurisdiction? Good question, right? I’ll let Bill Patry’s first paragraph serve…
Blogging
Joy McCann, blogging on Dean’s World, comments on a Slate article suggesting that bloggers are the Euro-American version of rappers. In your bottle-full-o-bub’ dreams, Joy! Originally posted 2005-03-23 10:51:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Copyright Law
Statutory Damages and the Tenenbaum Litigation: Doug Lichtman out at UCLA sends this along: Joel Tenenbaum looks a lot like every other defendant who has been accused by the music industry of illegally sharing copyrighted…
Bridging the Gap
In the future, if there is any singularity in trademark law, it may well come down to what what is called “bridging the gap” in the Second Circuit. In other words, how much exclusive trademark…
Disclosure
First posted on May 6, 2016. Interesting. This, from the mysterious Julie Zerbo at her iconoclastic blog, The Fashion Law: The newest group of potential outlaws in the fashion industry is not made up of tax…
IP Overreaching
The New York Post reports that the sculptor of the famous golden calf frozen in stampeding fury on lower Broadway — symbolizing the charge of capitalism in all its mammalian frenzy, its sinewy dynamism, its…