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Tag: Lego

Posted on May 24, 2021 IP Overreaching

Lego my Trademark

Europe just keeps generating stories. Their IP system is different, you see, though the march toward harmonization in a global market continues apace. Evidently, Lego... Read more

Posted on April 9, 2014April 25, 2014 Roundups

How Tweet it is

A little topical tweeting music from the last few weeks via @roncoleman: @VBalasubramani: State of Israel buys @Israel Twitter acct from Isr. Melendez (porn pdxr)... Read more

Posted on February 26, 2014 IP Overreaching

Lego loses

We reported on Lego’s overreaching years ago here and here.  They tried to use trademark rights as a way to protect the design of their... Read more

Tweety Bird
Posted on August 20, 2013 Roundups

Topical tweets

Here are some topical tweets by others of likely interest to LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION® readers that I’ve passed along to members of my Twitter social... Read more

Posted on December 23, 2009October 28, 2013 Fashion Law

So shoe me!

Staci Riordan reports on the big shoe-vs.-shoe design lawsuit everyone’s talking about — invoking copyright plus one Lanham Act and two New York law varieties of... Read more

Posted on November 19, 2005June 11, 2011 IP Overreaching

Lego-ing, going, gone….

The Globe and Mail reports: Danish toy giant Lego System AS was given a sharp lesson in the workings of free-market “creative destruction” yesterday when... Read more

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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 social media). That may sound like a lot, but it's just a blog.

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