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Likelihood of Confusion

Best of 2011: Upper crust – the POCKET SANDWICHES croissants saga

Ron Coleman Dec 28, 2011 2 Comments

First posted on July 15, 2011. Letters, we get letters. Sometimes people just want to share their trademark woes with me. Sometimes they want free advice, or cheap advice, or…

Stealing the Language

Best of 2011: Golden Nugget: Request for proposal

Ron Coleman Dec 27, 2011 0 Comments

Originally posted July 26, 2011. I’m requesting that the Golden Nugget casino accept a proposal from me — I want to handle their cost-effectiveness-be-damned domain trademark enforcement program! Ryan Gile…

Stealing the Language

Golden Nugget: Request for proposal

Ron Coleman Jul 26, 2011 4 Comments

I’m requesting that the Golden Nugget casino accept a proposal from me — I want to handle their cost-effectiveness-be-damned domain trademark enforcement program! Ryan Gile explains: When one considers that…

IP Overreaching

Upper crust: the POCKET SANDWICHES (and maybe croissants) saga (Part 2 of 2)

Carl Vennitti Jul 18, 2011 3 Comments

Last week I told the story — as told through this TTAB opinion — of Carl Vennitti’s seven-year tug of war with Nestlé, maker of Hot Pockets food-type product and…

Likelihood of Confusion

Upper crust – the POCKET SANDWICHES croissants saga (Part 1 of 2)

Ron Coleman Jul 15, 2011 7 Comments

Letters, we get letters. Sometimes people just want to share their trademark woes with me. Sometimes they want free advice, or cheap advice, or just a broad, powerful if round…

Trademarks and trademark law

Giving his all, almost

Ron Coleman Jun 25, 2010 2 Comments

I understand getting hot under the collar while defending meritless trademark claims, but this is a bit much: Trademark infringement trials are not usually emotional affairs. But Quinn Emanuel Urquhart…

Free Expression Internet Law

Cajuns cooked

Ron Coleman Aug 4, 2009 6 Comments

Attorney Scott Wolfe, flush with victory, sends along this update on the Louisiana lawyer advertising rules I blogged about last fall, when I said, “Get that? According to this, everything…

Everything else

Not a good e-discovery strategy

Ron Coleman Feb 8, 2007 1 Comments

Lavi Soloway writes (hat tip to Above the Law) regarding the extremely un-white-shoe discrimination litigation in New York County between former Sullivan & Cromwell associate Aaron Charney and the law…

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