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Blame it on chain

Posted on October 28, 2016 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2010-11-03 01:09:48. Republished by Blog Post PromoterYou’d think a catalog page would be a great way, in a trademark registration application, to show […]

Trademark registration

Plugging leaks

Posted on October 21, 2016 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2010-11-23 15:45:17. Republished by Blog Post Promoter[Here’s a blast from the past — RDC]: In the New York Times: In a move that […]

Free Expression, Internet Law

Adverference?

Posted on May 17, 2016 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2009-01-22 13:31:48. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Working from home today after a bruising few weeks at work (see yesterday’s post!), I finally […]

Internet Law

Louisiana’s lawyers’ guild

Posted on April 22, 2016 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2014-08-07 16:31:46. Republished by Blog Post PromoterLast year we screamed and shouted along with a bunch of other people and prevented New York […]

Law Practice and Profession

Anti-Sedition Acts begin their attack on the Internet

Posted on February 23, 2016 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2014-09-05 10:55:51. Republished by Blog Post PromoterDifferent River reports on the biggest threat to free speech ever — the McCain-Feingold Act and its […]

Internet Law

Trademark: The tort of choice for censors

Posted on February 23, 2016 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2009-10-20 23:46:20. Republished by Blog Post PromoterSame old, same old we’ve been talking about since forever (via Glenn): A posting over on the […]

Internet Law

Anonymous penumbras; submerged emanations

Posted on February 3, 2016 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2011-02-15 13:30:04. Republished by Blog Post PromoterGlenn Reynolds links-n-thinks: ESTHER DYSON: Internet anonymity is like abortion. “I’m pro choice, but I think abortion […]

Internet Law

Best of 2008: “‘Consumer fraud’: The New Online Speech Control Law?” (March)

Posted on December 1, 2015 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2009-09-10 19:32:23. Republished by Blog Post PromoterThis was first posted on March 19, 2008. Get this: New Jersey prosecutors have subpoenaed records of […]

Uncategorized

DMCA days

Posted on November 27, 2015 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2008-07-21 21:27:12. Republished by Blog Post PromoterMike Masnick on a key question: Whether copyright fair use, no matter how obvious, may be ignored […]

dot… Pineapple?

Posted on November 16, 2015 by Matthew David Brozik

Originally posted 2013-04-01 00:01:28. Republished by Blog Post PromoterLoC got wind—and then a copy—of this letter, dated as of the date of this post, to […]

Domain Names

Best of 2009: Don’t be evil, much

Posted on January 26, 2015 by Ron Coleman

Posted February 7, 2009. It was bad enough that the government has gone “in house” on copyright issues. Now not only is the government looking […]

Internet Law

Best of 2007: Ideological purity

Posted on January 20, 2015 by Ron Coleman

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, […]

Free Expression

GEICO Isn’t Good News for Google

Posted on December 3, 2014 by Ron Coleman

Remember the GEICO v. Google case? My former law partner and long-time spouse Jane Coleman does. She’s writing a chapter on secondary trademark infringement liability for […]

Keyword Advertising

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

Posted on May 22, 2014 by Ron Coleman

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 […]

Internet Law