Ninth Circuit. Keywords. Trademarks. Hike!
Originally posted 2011-03-11 17:23:32. Republished by Blog Post PromoterHere’s a roundup of what other people are saying about the decision in Network Automation, Inc. v. […]
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Best of 2008: The Long and Rocky Road
This was first posted on May 7, 2008. Irvin Robbins, the co-founder of the Baskin-Robbins ice cream chain, died yesterday. Here’s how much time has […]
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Best of 2008: The Long and Rocky Road
This was first posted on May 7, 2008. Irvin Robbins, the co-founder of the Baskin-Robbins ice cream chain, died yesterday. Here’s how much time has […]
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Judge: “Go after your distributors, not free enterprise”
Judges — especially in the Eastern District of New York — are picking up what’s going on in the “elite salons” end of the trademarks-as-distribution-method-enforcement […]
Continue reading »Online use of trademarks and copyrights by “unauthorized distributors”
LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION does not generally comment about active cases in which we are directly involved. But a very important and detailed (61 pages!) summary […]
Continue reading »Designer Skin v. S&L Vitamins trial update
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 […]
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Jews for Jesus v. Google and Brodsky – update and analysis
I was on a panel called “Trademark Rights vs. Free Speech” at the Fall 2000 INTA Trademarks in Cyberspace Conference with Marty Schwimmer and David […]
Continue reading »Split decision
During my traditional end-of-December goof-off here I didn’t pay adequate attention to the important non-ruling in Costco v. Omega, which involves an issue I have […]
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Kirtsaeng and Copyright: First sale means first sale
The Supreme Court handed down a huge decision in copyright law today, ruling in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. that the first sale doctrine, which […]
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Best of 2012: INTA and the big tent
First posted on May 13, 2012.In the previous INTA post I raised the question of how a significant session discussing a significant topic — the effect […]
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“Diversion”: Threat or menace?
We have written before (as have some judges) about the dubious concept of “diversion,” usually used to rationalize the equally dubious concept of “initial interest […]
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Canada: Copyright law not meant to protect distribution networks
The Gray Blog reports that the Canadian Supreme Court has rejected an attempt — the sort made all day all over North America — to […]
Continue reading »“Infinity Dollars” — IP damages and the jury, Part 2
(Part 1 is here.) So. In light of the decision in the Thomas-Rasset case, which I first rounded up in part 1 of this first-ever […]
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Best of 2008: “Designer Skin v. S&L Continued: ‘S&L had a perfect right to sell this product'” (July)
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 […]
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