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Blogging

We don’t need no stinkin’ badges!

Ron Coleman Apr 12, 2007 2 Comments

Should there be a “blogger code of conduct“? Bloggers are facing some high-profile peer pressure to please be a little more polite. Blogs, online journal-style Web sites, are growing in…

Blogging

New blawg for Oregon law

Ron Coleman Mar 30, 2007 0 Comments

Of course it’s called the Oregon Business Litigation blog! UPDATE: Now it’s called the Northwest Business Litigation blog! It’s a project of Ater Wynne LLP.

52 Fake Pick-Up

Ron Coleman Mar 7, 2007 1 Comments

Susan proves she’s playing with a full deck with Counterfeit Chic’s Knockoff News No. 52, which must be the most flush edition yet.

Roundups

Sixth Circuit IP

Ron Coleman Feb 25, 2007 2 Comments

It’s a blog, and naturally we’re flattered to be linked. But boy, isn’t this a fairly scary prospect — IP law broken out by circuit? Come on, this supposed to…

Starting ’em out young

Ron Coleman Feb 11, 2007 0 Comments

Counterfeit Chic looks at tomorrow’s counterfeiters. Well, that’s how Susan looks at them, anyway. When you’re a carpenter everything looks like a nail, you know?

What is this?

Ron Coleman Jan 22, 2007 2 Comments

Why, its Blawg Review #92! Pip pip pip and how-da-ya-do!

I rate! And I float!

Ron Coleman Jan 12, 2007 0 Comments

Got my genuine, secondary – meaning – generating TTABlog Floating Key Chain in the mail yesterday — just for being me! I knew I’d float to the top in this…

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Superior to lump of coal: Blawg Review Awards 2006

Ron Coleman Dec 25, 2006 3 Comments

“It’s a new tradition on the last Monday of each year for an anonymous editor to announce the Blawg Review Awards for the best law blogs in numerous categories.” This…

Knock it off!

Ron Coleman Dec 17, 2006 0 Comments

And if you do, you just might make the next Counterfeit Chic “Knockoff News.” (I did!)

The TTABlog Fraud Collection

Ron Coleman May 18, 2006 0 Comments

Excellent trademark “research” for the slower, or lower, moments.

Blogging

Regrets — I’ve had a few.

Ron Coleman May 3, 2006 0 Comments

Eric Goldman reminds, “Blog in haste, regret at leisure.”

Roundups

Call for Papers

Ron Coleman Apr 14, 2005 0 Comments

This is our last call (tonight) for submissions for consideration for inclusion in next Monday’s Blawg Review, to be hosted here. (Any submission containing a longer string of conjunctions than…

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For Sale: Cabbage Patch Dolls, Pet Rocks

Ron Coleman Jan 4, 2005 0 Comments

Originally posted 2005-01-04 11:01:11. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Aha! See, the Blog Herald is asking the same question I did: Is 2005 the “Year of the Blog Backlash”? Yaakov…

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Marty Schwimmer’s blog

Ron Coleman Jan 3, 2005 0 Comments

By the way, let me be very clear about this: The definitive blog on the topic of trademarks is my friend Marty Schwimmer’s Trademark Blog. It’s funny also.

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