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Easy cometh, easy goeth

Ron Coleman Nov 6, 2009 0 Comments

No, not that Goethe. I mean the Bogeyman cameth and wenteth in the person, so to speak, of Eric Turkewitz’s Halloween hosting of Blawg Review this week, while I was…

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Super cy that?

Ron Coleman Oct 20, 2009 2 Comments

Trademark law not for everyone, huh? Not true! Watch just how well a hammer works when everything in its world is a nail! Okay, so Mark Herrmann and Jim Beck…

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Man in the tweet

Ron Coleman Oct 19, 2009 0 Comments

Here are last week’s too, too topical tweets shared with my slavish devotees via @roncoleman: RT @TrademarkBlog Ralph Lauren Apologizes For Image Of Emaciated Model: “We Are Responsible” (UPDATE)http://bit.ly/4te40O RT…

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Spicy IP

Ron Coleman Oct 16, 2009 2 Comments

Care for curry in your copyright? Take tatri in your trademark? Then you might just love this group blog, Spicy IP, on intellectual property developments in India. Start out with…

The circle of life

Ron Coleman Oct 13, 2009 0 Comments

When it comes to legal blogging, there seems to be no shortage of writing worth reading once one gets around to it. What’s that? You have no round tuit? My…

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Overlawyered, just-right-Blawg-Reviewed

Ron Coleman Jul 13, 2009 0 Comments

Walter Olson hosts this week’s Blawg Review: Welcome to Blawg Review #220, rounding up some highlights of the past week from around the legal blogosphere. It’s my second time hosting…

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Fashionably litigious

Ron Coleman Jun 22, 2009 3 Comments

Miss Trials is was a new blog, or sub-blog or something (I can’t make heads or tails of the navigation) on a site called Halogen Life. It

Two centuries of Blawg Review

Ron Coleman Mar 1, 2009 1 Comments

Blawg Review: #200 went up earlier last week, and, contemplating its bicentennial edition, it got a little philosophical. “Ed” (as in “Ed.,” the nom de keyboard of Blawg Review’s maestro)…

Smokin’!

Ron Coleman Jan 28, 2009 3 Comments

Here’s a whole blog dedicated to “Cigar Law” — quite a bit of which is trademark.

Blogging

Likelihood of enthusiasm

Ron Coleman Dec 9, 2008 1 Comments

Here’s a notice regarding our lust for life from C.C. Holland at Law.com: The litmus test for whether you should start a blog boils down to passion, says Kevin O’Keefe,…

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Nolo contendere

Ron Coleman Nov 23, 2008 0 Comments

There can’t be any dispute: This is a blog a lot of people, and especially non-specialists, should read — Nolo’s Patent, Copyright & Trademark blog by Rich Stim. He answers…

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The thing speaks for itself

Ron Coleman Nov 17, 2008 1 Comments

Blawg Recenseo est procul Res Ipsa Blog! NB (ut opes notabilis “note well“): Nos should totus have habeo Latin nomen pro nostrum blogs. Ut would restituo veneratio quod integrity ut…

Blogosphere news

Ron Coleman Nov 15, 2008 1 Comments

It’s not all about us, you know. For example: Stephen Nipper has a page with links to free text of the opinions in all of the past US Supreme Court…

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Copywrong

Ron Coleman Aug 5, 2008 3 Comments

Copyright doyen Bill Patry explains why he shut down his brilliant copyright law blog. Some of it had to do with his inability to prevent people from ascribing his personal…

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