Best of 2008: Someone dropped in an extra zero, right? RIGHT?
Ron ColemanPosted 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 ABA Journal, remember the Bratz…
Covering your assets.
Matthew David BrozikOver the weekend, all the nerdiest news outlets reported that Volpin Props‘ company that makes props and replicas “mostly videogame related,” according to the outfit’s Facebook page — “but anything…
The DO’s & DON’Ts of Fashion Lawyers’ Advertising
Tomorrow night TONIGHT (October 24, 2012) at Fordham Law School I will be speaking on a panel with fashion lawyers Bernice K. Leber of Arent Fox, Ted Max of Sheppard…
The sincerest form of flattery
Susan Scafidi seems genuinely shocked — no, I mean, genuinely! — over this comment by Ralph Lauren: When the New York Times‘ Eric Wilson listened to Oprah Winfrey and Ralph…
Louboutin gets the boot
In a case that has everyone seeing red — No, let me start over. And without the jokes. Because in a decision in Christian Louboutin S.A. v. Yves Saint Laurent…
IDPPPA ok?
That’s the Innovative Design Protection and Piracy Prevention Act, back up for another shot at the big leagues. We need more laws right? And just like last year, Susan Scafidi,…
Best of 2010: Gucci v. Frontline Processing: Giving credit for infringement where it’s due
Jane ColemanFirst posted July 12, 2010. This is an adaptation of a summary and analysis of the recent decision in Gucci America, Inc. v. Frontline Processing Corp., 2010 WL 2541367 (S.D.N.Y.),…
Best of 2010: How Supreme Skateboard plays the edge
First posted on June 1, 2010. The new Case Clothesed blog out of New York Law School has a very interesting, if lightly sourced, piece about how Supreme Skateboard has…
Best of 2010: Foul ball?
First published on March 2, 2010. Louis Vuitton Malletier and its lawyers demonstrate how to make sure a few seconds of what they say is trademark dilution get a lot…
New fashion IP bill: Put it on HER tab!
But which “her”? Two fashion blogs I know on two different coasts express two very different views about this… new fashion law bill thing. I’m not even going to try…
COICA: Big IP supersizes it
Everything I’ve written about here for the last five years, or just about everything, is about to get a lot worse, explains David Post: Congress is set to once again…
Bratz, foiled again!
First, December’s 15, 2009’s story: Remember the Bratz dolls case, and the phenomenal legal fees application that followed? It’s back! The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals stayed the trial judge’s…
Gucci v. Frontline Processing: Giving credit for infringement where it’s due
This is an adaptation of a summary and analysis of the recent decision in Gucci America, Inc. v. Frontline Processing Corp., 2010 WL 2541367 (S.D.N.Y.), discussed here casually earlier. Jane…
How Supreme Skateboard plays the edge
The new Case Clothesed blog out of New York Law School has a very interesting, if lightly sourced, piece about how Supreme Skateboard has managed for years to infringe a…