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Posted on July 8, 2010July 14, 2010 Free Expression

Liberté, égalité, censure… and the First Amendment?

Last week Reuters “news” service reported about the pending request by Yahoo! for a what appears to be a declaratory judgment (I have not seen... Read more

Matthew David Brozik
Posted on April 28, 2010October 18, 2016 Literature

Taking the catcher out of the rye

On July first of last year, the Honorable Deborah A. Batts, United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York (hotbed of intellectual... Read more

Posted on February 12, 2010October 23, 2012 LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®

Creative destruction?

Sonia Katyal at Fordham Law School sent me a heads-up about an essay she co-authored, posted on the occasion of the Greensboro civil rights sit-ins, called “Celebrating Trespassers”... Read more

Posted on February 11, 2010February 14, 2010 Uncategorized

Limits of the Reasonable Man

Concurring Opinions has an article confirming what I have long suspected: Law and Economics doesn’t really work all that great in the intellectual property department.... Read more

Posted on January 1, 2010January 1, 2010 Uncategorized

Best of 2009: “Fraud on the PTO: Is it real, or all in my mind?”

This was first posted on September 3, 2009. Big decision, via the TTABlog®: The worm, finally, finally, has turned on the issue of the cancellation... Read more

Posted on October 18, 2009October 21, 2009 Copyright Law

Norway puts it to Apple

Yahoo! News / Reuters: Norway stepped up its battle with Apple Computer Inc.’s iTunes on Thursday when its consumer ombudsman said the software giant must... Read more

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The question of whether consumers are likely to be confused is the signal inquiry that determines if a trademark infringement claim is valid. I write here about trademark law, copyright law, brands, free speech (mostly as it relates to the Internet and social media). That may sound like a lot, but it's just a blog.

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