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Posted on January 24, 2023 Distribution systems

Guest Post: Fair Use or Foul Ball?

 [stextbox id=”info”] See below for more information about my colleague Greg Winsky, who is just snarky enough to merit a guest post on LIKELIHOOD OF CONCLUSION... Read more

Posted on December 30, 2022 Internet Law

Don’t be evil, much

It was bad enough that the government has gone “in house” on copyright issues.  Now not only is the government looking more and more “bought”... Read more

Posted on November 21, 2022 Copyright Law

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?”... Read more

Posted on August 30, 2022 Copyright Law

Sun, Oracle, Microsoft, Google, trademark, patents, copyright and David Boies

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,... Read more

Posted on July 28, 2022 Counterfeiting & Piracy Fashion Law Internet Law

Vuitton beats Google on home court

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

Posted on July 27, 2022 Internet Law

LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION® in 2006: “Is Google a utility?”

I posted this in August, 2006. I don’t think the question has been answered yet: We wrote about the Kinderstart lawsuit against Google, claiming an... Read more

Posted on March 8, 2022 IP Institutions

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... Read more

Posted on September 10, 2021September 14, 2021 Trademarks and trademark law

Google me this II

We blogged a week or so ago (before I got bogged down in this trial — still in progress [UPDATE]) about Google’s trademark challenges. Here’s... Read more

Posted on June 17, 2021June 28, 2021 Free Expression

Ideological purity

Yahoo News: Chinese Communist Party chief Hu Jintao has vowed to “purify” the Internet, state media reported on Wednesday, describing a top-level meeting that discussed... Read more

Posted on June 17, 2021 Keyword Advertising

Not quite dead

The Google / Kinderstart suit was dismissed, with leave given to amend, in August. What sounds like oral argument regarding the amended complaint is being... Read more

Posted on June 17, 2021 Free Expression

Best of 2007: Ideological purity

First posted on January 24, 2007. Yahoo News: Chinese Communist Party chief Hu Jintao has vowed to “purify” the Internet, state media reported on Wednesday,... Read more

Posted on June 17, 2021 Politics

Which exit did we get off, again?

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... Read more

Posted on June 17, 2021 IP Overreaching

Google down, boogy oogy oogy

Ben Charny at eWeek reports: “Google’s ‘Oogle’ Hunters Bag Another One.” What’s it all about? The magic of the double-o, reports Charny: Google’s Rose Hagan,... Read more

Posted on June 11, 2021 Distribution systems

Chocolate Ice Cream with Chocolate Syrup

How else to describe a post (this one) that combines two of our favorite obsessions — Google and fair use? Business Week online reports that... Read more

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