Keyword Advertising – LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™

Good News: I Saved a Lot of Money on Litigation

Posted on September 20, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Looking for the Geico v. Google decision? Here it is. More to come…. UPDATE: I didn’t exactly mean more litigation — but I guess we […]

Internet Law, Trademarks and trademark law

Aw, shucks

Posted on March 5, 2019 by Ron Coleman

We already covered the Designer Skin v. S&L Vitamins summary judgment decision, and linked to commentators Greg Beck, Bill Patry, Rebecca Tushnet, Eric Goldman and […]

Diversion

INTA and the big tent (updated)

Posted on December 18, 2018 by Ron Coleman

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 […]

IP Institutions

Trademark suit threats to shut down free speech? Shocking.

Posted on February 20, 2018 by Ron Coleman

Kansas City infoZine News reports (link added): The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) warned the Chicago Auto Show to back off attempts to muzzle protestors [sic] […]

Parody and Satire

Google Plaintiffs Start Here

Posted on January 24, 2018 by Ron Coleman

It may or may not be true that sooner or later, everyone in intellectual property law will be suing Google. Well, it’s almost certainly not […]

Trademarks and trademark law

Google, Geico Good to Go

Posted on January 17, 2017 by Ron Coleman

Google and Geico have settled. Originally posted 2014-03-14 10:41:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Keyword Advertising

Bring your discomfort bag (revised and expanded)

Posted on July 5, 2016 by Ron Coleman

Technology & Marketing Law Blog: “The keyword advertising legal roller-coaster continues.” As someone who is on that thrill ride — at least partly on the […]

Keyword Advertising

Adverference?

Posted on May 17, 2016 by Ron Coleman

Working from home today after a bruising few weeks at work (see yesterday’s post!), I finally figured out what was going on with banner ads […]

Internet Law

Ninth Circuit. Keywords. Trademarks. Hike!

Posted on December 30, 2015 by Ron Coleman

Here’s a roundup of what other people are saying about the decision in Network Automation, Inc. v. Advanced System Concepts, Inc. involving keyword advertising using […]

Diversion

Wherefore art thou trademark use?

Posted on May 13, 2015 by Ron Coleman

I wrote a couple of days ago — and once again got hit hard by a learned commenter who disagrees with my view of the […]

Internet Law, Trademarks and trademark law

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

Wal-Mart pushed back on dubious trademark threats

Posted on November 19, 2014 by Ron Coleman

MarketWatch reports this story about an opinonated gent who’s suing Wal-Mart for a declaratory judgment: Smith said he was making a point by comparing the […]

Free Expression, Trademarks and trademark law