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Tag: Civil Procedure

Posted on July 27, 2010August 1, 2010 Patents

Oh, won’t you stay?

Say you will? The judge politely declined, actually — per our suggestion.  Read all about the happy outcome, and other yeoman work from the self-promotion-with-dignity... Read more

Posted on June 28, 2010July 6, 2010 Trademarks and trademark law

10th Cir. on DJ’s in TM

The DeMoines firm of McKee Voorhees & Sease has a very interesting looking IP blog called Filewrapper®. Here they report on a Tenth Circuit case... Read more

Posted on June 7, 2010June 7, 2010 Copyright Law Trademarks and trademark law

Missing persons

Usually, as the bible of secondary trademark infringement explains, “contributory infringement . . . requires proof of direct infringement by a third party . .... Read more

Posted on February 12, 2010February 17, 2010 Internet Law

Ninth Circuit: eBay not a portal to jurisdiction

We spill a lot of pixels here blogging about the question of just how transparent, nay ethereal, eBay is as, say, a facilitator of transactions... Read more

Posted on October 31, 2006February 24, 2015 Law Practice and Profession

Love is blue. Litigation is love. Litigation is war. Love is war. War is Blue.

The fallacy, of course, is not only in affirming the consequent plus no small amount of equivocation, but in the probable falsehood of the second... 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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