The new generic
Ron ColemanIt is no longer the case that the appearance of your brand in the dictionary spells its doom as a protectable trademark.
My brand of humor – No. 5 – Myq Kaplan
In which Myq Kaplan searches for a way to understand how — the dark arts of product placement notwithstanding and with all due respect for the possibilities of genericide —…
Complaint in Gab.AI v. Google
Now here’s something you don’t see every day. Kudos to Marc Randazza and Jordan Rushie for having the courage to file this complaint! Yes, I helped. I wrote it. UPDATE:…
Guest Post: Fair Use or Foul Ball?
Gregory WinskySee below for more information about my colleague Greg Winsky, who is just snarky enough to merit a guest post on LIKELIHOOD OF CONCLUSION on a topic I’ve been covering…
Best of 2008: Which exit did we get off, again?
Posted on September 7, 2008. Well, maybe we’ve been too hard on the Democrats here at LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®. Perhaps unlike the GOP, they’ve got good, progressive IP counsel out…
Google a utility? Not the way we thought
I asked the following question more than a little while back in connection with the Kinderstart lawsuit against Google, which asserted a supposed right to a certain “objective” Google ranking…
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 of developments in keyword…
Search for resolution
It’s two posts in one (I like to pull that off when I can), not even counting this one: Mike Masnick on Eric Goldman on the settlement of the Google…
The Google Library Project and the dog that didn’t bark — yet
Nicholas WellsThis post is the first by a new guest contributor, Utah IP lawyer Nicholas Wells, who also blogs on IP here. I first blogged about the tiff between Google and…
Google buzz, right?
Not really. This may be off topic, but is Google ever off topic? And besides, is anything more “branding” than Google? And branding is a topic after all. We used…
A long blog thread’s journey INTA night
Now: I had mentioned that the Managing IP link I provided in the first INTA post alluded to some pretty interesting fireworks involving the “empty chair” in this debate, i.e.,…
Just not that INTA it
It felt like I could write a seven-part series about all the ideas I had in my head, driving me insane, about INTA 2012. Maybe if I’d stayed up all…
INTA and the big tent (updated)
Revised from Friday’s original post. In the previous INTA post I raised the question of how a significant session discussing a significant topic — the effect of developments in keyword…
Best of 2011: Sun, Oracle, Microsoft, Google, trademark, patents, copyright and David Boies
First posted September 28, 2011. There’s a lot going on, conceptually, in this article entitled “The $800M question: What’s the difference between trademark and copyright?” in VentureBeat: Ten years ago,…