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Posted on November 13, 2022 LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®

Meet the Bloggers X

  No, LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION® won’t be at The INTA this year and so I won’t be co-sponsoring Meet the Bloggers X.   Actually, the second... Read more

Posted on July 1, 2022 Meet the Bloggers

Meet the Bloggers at INTA 2019!

MEET THE BLOGGERS at #INTA2019 in Boston will be on Monday, May 20th, 8:00 - 10:00 PM, at "Kings Bowl." INTA attendess of all but one shape are urged to attend Read more

Posted on April 10, 2022 IP Institutions

Censorship at INTA?

In a post from last Friday, Lara Pearson takes on what she calls “Censorship at INTA .”* It’s about the big-IP redoubt’s plan to remove the... 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 January 3, 2022 Law Practice and Profession

Best of 2013: It’s fun to stay at the U-N-T-A!

First published May 19, 2013. Last year there was much Strum und Drang here about INTA — sorry, I mean The I-N-T-A!, which stands for... Read more

Posted on January 1, 2022January 12, 2022 IP Institutions

Trademark misuse at the AIPLA

Down at the bottom of this post is a PDF of my paper, included in the CLE materials for a panel on which I was... Read more

Posted on November 24, 2021 Blogging

Meet some bloggers. Whatever.

John Welch asks, in his naive but charming way: TTABlog query: Who, if anyone, owns the rights to the mark MEET THE BLOGGERS? I coined... Read more

Posted on November 11, 2021 Blogging

Met some bloggers!

What a great evening it was at Meet the Bloggers VIII at the International Trademark Association’s annual meeting in DC!  And by now, we should... Read more

Posted on November 10, 2021 Trademarks and trademark law

Proof of God’s existence

“@INTA: Stephen Hawking applies to #trademark name: http://t.co/yWlSZNGJk1” | “Trademark” is not a verb. Who are you? — Ron Coleman (@RonColeman) March 30, 2015 Originally... Read more

Posted on June 17, 2021 IP Institutions

Forward, INTA the past!

The International Trademark Association, or INTA (which calls itself “the I-N-T-A” on INTA TV… interesting branding choice there) is important. Most of the people and... Read more

Posted on May 28, 2021 LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®

A Century of Trademark Law: Looking back … at me

A Century of Trademark Law: Looking Back and Looking Forward, a photo by Eric Goldman Mountain View on Flickr. Eric Goldman took this picture of... Read more

Posted on May 28, 2021 IP Institutions

INTA Annual Meeting – a century of trademarks

Good meeting. San Francisco is a good location, even if it isn’t providing us good weather. Everything is walkable; the Moscone Center is human sized... Read more

Posted on May 28, 2021 IP Institutions

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... Read more

Posted on May 24, 2021 Blogging

Meet the Bloggers DC 2012!

Time has come again!  Click the pic to RSVP  — if you are one of the few hep-cats attending the annual meeting of the International... Read more

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