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Tag: Jocularity

Best of the Worst

Posted on June 9, 2020 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2013-07-30 16:37:19. Republished by Blog Post PromoterA sideways thank-you to the boys at Blogads for naming an old, fuzzy ad of ours [Update: […]

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Brand Management and Branding

PTO invents perpetual spam machine

Posted on October 17, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2011-05-08 00:54:10. Republished by Blog Post PromoterPatently-O publishes a rather ambitious patent application that could actually make that mainstay of PTO rejection fodder, […]

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Uncategorized

They always get their man

Posted on September 20, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2009-11-24 17:22:30. Republished by Blog Post PromoterYes, people do have some funny ideas of what kinds of things to protect with copyright, don’t […]

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Copyright Law

Whaddya know!

Posted on November 19, 2014 by Ron Coleman

The Mustang Ranch trademark case has finally been resolved — and it turns out that prostitute proprietor Lance Gilman gets to claim the trademark for […]

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Licensing

Jihadi Faux?

Posted on July 25, 2013 by Ron Coleman

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 […]

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Name that geek

Posted on August 8, 2012 by Ron Coleman

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 […]

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Law Practice and Profession

Rat’s rights

Posted on September 29, 2010 by Ron Coleman

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 […]

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Brand Management and Branding

Ode to the Code

Posted on November 24, 2009 by Ron Coleman

Yehuda Berlinger, whose poetic version of the Lanham Act we linked to anon, also did the Copyright Act last summer.  Somehow I missed it, but […]

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Copyright Law

Commercial, Trademark and Free Speech Litigation

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The Title, the Blog and the Blogger

The question of whether consumers are likely to be confused is the signal inquiry that determines if a trademark infringement claim is valid. I write here about trademark law, copyright law, brands, free speech (mostly as it relates to the Internet) and legal issues related to blogging. That may sound like a lot, but it's just a blog.

ron-coleman-lawyerAs for me, I'm Ron Coleman, a commercial litigator and a partner in the Dhillon Law Group with a special interest in copyright and trademark law and free speech. I was also the lead lawyer for The Slants, The Band Who Must Not be Named.

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