Damages | LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™

Best of 2008: Someone dropped in an extra zero, right? RIGHT?

Posted on January 22, 2015 by Ron Coleman

Posted on October 16, 2008. It’s a month-old story, and how it got past us here notwithstanding, it’s not getting past us now. Per the […]

Fee Shifting

Little claims, big idea?

Posted on July 24, 2014 by Ron Coleman

A major theme around here is the proposition that copyright law encourages litigation of even the most tenuous plaintiffs’ claims, mainly because of the rules […]

This Isn’t One, Either. Heavens, No.

Posted on April 9, 2014 by Ron Coleman

Bill Heinze’s I/P Updates blog reports about a trademark registration you can see at the erstwhile movie pirating website LokiTorrent.com. You get a message that […]

Designer Skin v. S&L Vitamins trial update

Posted on January 3, 2014 by Ron Coleman

The remaining issues in the case, you may recall, were copyright infringement and Arizona unfair competition. Here is the status per this morning’s minute entry […]

Best of 2012: Little claims, big idea?

Posted on December 26, 2012 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted September 12, 2012. A major theme around here is the proposition that copyright law encourages litigation of even the most tenuous plaintiffs’ claims, […]

Statutory damages in copyright, and the Tenenbaum case

Posted on September 6, 2010 by Ron Coleman

Statutory Damages and the Tenenbaum Litigation: Doug Lichtman out at UCLA sends this along: Joel Tenenbaum looks a lot like every other defendant who has […]

The second time as farce

Posted on July 15, 2010 by Ron Coleman

On the occasion of the S&L Vitamins v. Australian Gold trial, I reposted what I wrote here six months earlier about the first of these […]

Diversion, Trademarks and trademark law

Humdinger of a copyright case

Posted on May 18, 2010 by Ron Coleman

How can a statute of limitations for copyright infringement bar a state law claim for an accounting of profits between co-authors brought under diversity jurisdiction? […]

Gin a body meet a body

Posted on May 2, 2010 by Ron Coleman

Body #1 being the “Mother Court,” as it describes itself–the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Body #2 being […]

Best of 2008: “Designer Skin v. S&L Continued: ‘S&L had a perfect right to sell this product'” (July)

Posted on December 29, 2008 by Ron Coleman

This was first posted on July 18th: Unfortunately for future defendants in the position of our client, Internet retailer S&L, U.S. District Judge James Teilborg’s […]

Brand Management and Branding, Copyright Law, Internet Law, Trademarks and trademark law

Online retailing and initial interest confusion

Posted on May 21, 2008 by Ron Coleman

We reported earlier on a related case in this area implicating the use of trademarks to sell merchandise online via “unauthorized distributors.” A new decision […]

Trademarks and trademark law

Bringing big IP plaintiffs down a peg — or two

Posted on June 1, 2007 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2014-01-17 10:17:30. Republished by Blog Post PromoterMike Atkins is paying attention to Microsoft’s IP docket, as a Seattle Trademark Lawyer will do. He’s […]

Counterfeiting & Piracy