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“I’m a man”

Posted on September 20, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2007-06-06 22:55:54. Republished by Blog Post PromoterAnd perhaps a Brawnier one than you might otherwise have thought, at that. Not that there’s anything […]

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Trademarks and trademark law

Trade Dress Rights in Musical Instruments

Posted on July 27, 2016 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2012-11-20 19:02:14. Republished by Blog Post PromoterJohn Welch’s TTAB Blog — which monitors developments at the Trademark Trials and Appeals Board — picks […]

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Brand Management and Branding, Trademarks and trademark law

Bar none

Posted on September 7, 2015 by Ron Coleman

Michael Atkins: [University of Washington] School of Law Professor Sean O’Connor, guest blogging at Legal Satyricon, writes about AT&T’s trademark registration of the bars indicating cell phone […]

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Trademarks and trademark law

Best of 2007: “I’m a man”

Posted on January 20, 2015 by Ron Coleman

Posted on June 6, 2007. And perhaps a Brawnier one than you might otherwise have thought, at that. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. […]

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Trademarks and trademark law

So shoe me!

Posted on December 23, 2009 by Ron Coleman

Staci Riordan reports on the big shoe-vs.-shoe design lawsuit everyone’s talking about — invoking copyright plus one Lanham Act and two New York law varieties of […]

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Fashion Law

While my guitar gently weeps

Posted on March 31, 2009 by Ron Coleman

One of the first posts on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION® was about Gibson Guitar Corp. v. Paul Reed Smith Guitars, LP, 70 UPSQ2d 1911 (M.D. Tenn. […]

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Brand Management and Branding, Trademarks and trademark law

The Title, the Blog and the Blogger

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 legal issues related to blogging. That may sound like a lot, but it's just a blog.

ron-coleman-lawyerAs for me, I'm Ron Coleman, a commercial litigator with a special interest in copyright and trademark law at Mandelbaum Salsburg, PC. I was also the lead lawyer for The Slants, The Band Who Must Not be Named.

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