They always get their man
Ron ColemanYes, people do have some funny ideas of what kinds of things to protect with copyright, don’t they? A few years ago, criminal enterprise Milberg Weiss (in its pre-conviction days)…
Ode to the Code
Ron ColemanYehuda Berlinger, whose poetic version of the Lanham Act we linked to anon, also did the Copyright Act last summer. Somehow I missed it, but since then I’ve been doing…
Rat’s rights
A Chinese company has been refused permission to use the name of a disgraced official as a trademark to sell rat poison. Xinhua News Agency said the Shenyang Feilong Pharmaceutical…
PTO invents perpetual spam machine
Patently-O publishes a rather ambitious patent application that could actually make that mainstay of PTO rejection fodder, perpetual motion machines, look quite reasonable: “Chris Roller wants exclusive right to the…
Whaddya know!
Ron ColemanThe Mustang Ranch trademark case has finally been resolved — and it turns out that prostitute proprietor Lance Gilman gets to claim the trademark for the whorehouse he done boughten…
Name that geek
Dennis Crouch of the Patently-O blog did a cool little experiment. A professor of law at Boston University and a practicing patent lawyer, he’d be the first to admit this…
Jihadi Faux?
Counterfeit Chic reports that the world really does revolve around intellectual property! Last week in Maryland, a traffic stop yielded a cache of counterfeit Nike sneakers, LV and Coach handbags,…
Best of the Worst
A sideways thank-you to the boys at Blogads for naming an old, fuzzy ad of ours , which actually linked to my law firm website and not the blog (there…