Decline and Fall
Counterfeit Chic reports on yet another indignity visited on the famous girl singer who is presently popular culture’s most pathetic public death spiral: a European... Read more
Lawyer Ron Coleman on brands, the Internet & free speech
Counterfeit Chic reports on yet another indignity visited on the famous girl singer who is presently popular culture’s most pathetic public death spiral: a European... Read more
The International Herald Tribune reports: Louis Vuitton, the luxury goods manufacturer, won another round Wednesday in its court battle with the search engine Google to... Read more
London’s Times: People who illegally download films and music will be cut off from the internet under new legislative proposals to be unveiled next week.Internet... Read more
Shoes are dropping all over Europe: L’Oreal, the world’s largest cosmetics group, has launched legal action against eBay, alleging the online auctioneer does not do... Read more
This was first posted on April 14, 2008. Cadbury is purple in the face over not being able to secure the wordlwide exclusive rights to... Read more
Cadbury is purple in the face over not being able to secure the wordlwide exclusive rights to the use of the color purple in association... Read more
Unlike in the good old U.S. of A., Tarzan’s yell doesn’t cut it in Europe — at least not as a trademark: Tarzan’s distinctive yell... Read more
Europe just might save Americans' free speech and effectively our democracy by its willingness to act against Facebook Read more
Facebook is looking over its shoulder at the competition, and doing what comes naturally for succesful businesses based on a model, if not a technology,... Read more
Mike Masnick: Google is being fined hundreds of thousands of euros for allowing certain trademarked [sic] words to have advertisements run against them. It’s hard... Read more
Explosive story: Looks like some trademark trouble for an evidently fissionable material girl. UPDATE: Resolved in a most unexplosive way: The company claimed to own... Read more
The LA Times reports: Wal-Mart Stores Inc., which uses a yellow happy face to try to put its shoppers in a carefree mood, is saying... Read more
“Google makes money not by reason of the nature of the keyword, but by someone clicking on the keyword,” Google lawyer Alexandra Neri told a... Read more
Jeremy Phillips reports on some “thought I’d seen it all” hijinx from the renowned European Court of F’rinstance: Although [the IPKat] e is generally reluctant to... Read more