
Fishy business
Funny things happen to trademarks in the Casbah. John Burgess at the Crossroads Arabia blog has a story about a recent incident of Saudi Arabia’s... Read more
Lawyer Ron Coleman on brands, the Internet & free speech
Funny things happen to trademarks in the Casbah. John Burgess at the Crossroads Arabia blog has a story about a recent incident of Saudi Arabia’s... Read more
Michael Atkins gives us the post-mortem on this case that demonstrates what could delicately be called the home field advantage. Originally posted 2012-06-11 19:57:20. Republished... Read more
Ann Althouse: Starbucks used to seem like a luxury brand, and now it feels like a fallback when you can’t get to the real thing.... Read more
Welcome to Blawg Review. Cold, rainy, prematurely wintry greetings from metropolitan New York. No exclamation point. It has been that kind of year, it seems.... Read more
In mid-December I wrote about the chuckles unintentionally provided to the Second Circuit during oral argument of the appeal by Louis Vuitton of the rejection of its... Read more
Welcome to Blawg Review. Cold, rainy, prematurely wintry greetings from metropolitan New York. No exclamation point. It has been that kind of year, it seems.... Read more
Welcome to Blawg Review. Cold, rainy, prematurely wintry greetings from metropolitan New York. No exclamation point. It has been that kind of year, it seems.... Read more
(I have excised this from the larger omnibus posting below and added to it.) A woman named Samantha Buck tried to parlay the coincidence of... Read more
It really does appear that trademark dilution, once the darling of federal judges seeking to enforce trademark rights in gross on behalf of markholders whose... Read more
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
The Seoul Central District Court rules that the trademark “The Magic School Bus” of SCHOLASTIC INC. in America is different from “School Bus” of DAE... Read more
Updated version of the post first found here on December 8, 2009. Poor Starbucks. So much trademark trouble they have! Other trouble, too. And now... Read more
Welcome to Blawg Review. Cold, rainy, prematurely wintry greetings from metropolitan New York. No exclamation point. It has been that kind of year, it seems.... Read more
I have written often about the way trademark law plays out predictably along lines of classical rent-seeking. That is not a bad thing per se,... Read more