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... Read more
Tag: Jocularity
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... Read more
They always get their man
Yes, people do have some funny ideas of what kinds of things to protect with copyright, don’t they? A few years ago, criminal enterprise... Read more
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... Read more
Whaddya know!
The Mustang Ranch trademark case has finally been resolved — and it turns out that prostitute proprietor Lance Gilman gets to claim the trademark for... Read more
Best of the Worst
A sideways thank-you to the boys at Blogads for naming an old, fuzzy ad of ours [Update: Like the law firm, the link is gone;... Read more
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... Read more
Ode to the Code
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... Read more