Decline and Fall
Counterfeit Chic reports on yet another indignity visited on the famous girl singer who is presently popular culture’s most pathetic public death spiral: a European... Read more
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Best of 2006: Side by side comparison doesn’t decide likelihood of confusion
Originally posted on July 11, 2006. This is an important decision: The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has partially reversed the earlier ruling of the... Read more
Side by side comparison doesn’t decide likelihood of confusion
This is an important decision: The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has partially reversed the earlier ruling of the U.S. District Court for the Southern... Read more
Lanham Act attorneys’ fees: Good to know
The situation with attorneys’ fees in “exceptional cases” under the Lanham Act is, to put it mildly, not clear. I’ve written about it from... Read more
Best of 2013: Lanham Act attorneys’ fees: Good to know
First published on June 27, 2013. The situation with attorneys’ fees in “exceptional cases” under the Lanham Act is, to put it mildly, not clear.... Read more
Best of 2010: How Supreme Skateboard plays the edge
First posted on June 1, 2010. The new Case Clothesed blog out of New York Law School has a very interesting, if lightly sourced, piece about... Read more
Divert me!
I’ve been writing about “diversion” of sales — otherwise known as “unauthorized distribution” or the sale of gray market goods — since forever. And I’ve... Read more
LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION® in 2006: “Is Google a utility?”
I posted this in August, 2006. I don’t think the question has been answered yet: We wrote about the Kinderstart lawsuit against Google, claiming an... Read more
Trademark infringement: Just say no
Trademark litigators and enforcement people (especially in anticounterfeiting) frequently analogize to the War on Drugs. You can’t really ever stop the flow of fake Vuitton... Read more
Luxury is as luxury does
Brands that were once considered “luxury” have taken to relying on “low-cost, high-profit items wrapped in logos.” https://t.co/OhJIcndsM1 pic.twitter.com/oWAW24t7QO — THE FASHION LAW (@TheFashionLaw) April... Read more
The unbearable dumbness of threatening
I’ve made a career here of tut-tutting the impolitic and brand-negating utterance of baseless cease and desist and other threatening letters based on IP infringement,... Read more
Bringing big IP plaintiffs down a peg — or two
Mike Atkins is paying attention to Microsoft’s IP docket, as a Seattle Trademark Lawyer will do. He’s reporting about a default judgment and award the... Read more
Trademarks, copyright, brand equity, and rent-seeking: Soapbox 2010
From last week’s INTA Trademark Topics email discussion list. One name has been changed to protect the innocent, and the links, by way of annotation,... Read more
Home cookin’ a la mode, with a most undeserving dessert
From the WSJ Law Blog: A French court today cracked down on counterfeits — and an outlet that sells them — ordering eBay to pay... Read more