Best of 2012: SOPA box
Ron ColemanOriginally published on January 18, 2012. You don’t need a link to find out what’s going with the SOPA “Blackout,” or all that other stuff. It’s all over the place,…
SOPA box
You don’t need a link to find out what’s going with the SOPA “Blackout,” or all that other stuff. It’s all over the place, beyond those with a special interest…
Frizzled trademark in Korea
Kyung Jae ParkI received the following in the form of a newsletter from the Book Chon law firm in South Korea. I get a lot of newsletters and alerts, and don’t hardly…
The fairest one of all?
Last week we were talking about the issue of copyright morphing into trademark. Well, how about public domain morphing into copyright, and then trademark? Well, garsh, kids, call me Goofy…
The seven habits of highly annoying lawyers
Or, perhaps, the companies that hire them. Let’s see if we can find all seven in this highly effective — certainly highly earnest! — item from Mark Malek at the…
The entrepreneurship of trademark bullying
I figured I must have written somewhere about that PTO trademark bullying thing — or if I didn’t, I am sure I linked to someone who did — well, I…
Is trademark bullying okay if you’re on the side of the angels?
I’ve never thought so. Neither does Techdirt‘s Mike Masnick — not surprisingly — concerning the tactics employed by the Susan G. Komen for the Cure operation and its assertion of…
Best of 2010: Foul ball?
First published on March 2, 2010. Louis Vuitton Malletier and its lawyers demonstrate how to make sure a few seconds of what they say is trademark dilution get a lot…
That special something that says “infringement”
Paul Alan Levy sends along this heartwarming news about the Jenzabar case: In a ruling this week, a Massachusetts trial judge upheld the free speech rights of a documentary filmmaking…
The latest intel on Intel’s trademark adventures – Bumped, UPDATED with prejudice
Forget about that dull, boring stuff about the negotiations between the Federal Trademark Commission and Intel Corporation’s so-called anticompetitive practices. It’s dog eat dog out there — what do these…
Returning balance to the IP equation
My article, “Trademark, Copyright, and the Internet: Time to Return Balance to Civil Litigation” in the August 31, 2010 edition of the Federalist Society’s Engage magazine is now online. The…
Sealed with a fist
I kvetch a lot about the mania for dubious “IP enforcement” by government agencies such as New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority, which really should both know better and which have…
More, more, Moore!
One of my favorite ever topics here on LOC has been the litigation brought by the University of Alabama against painter Daniel Moore for unauthorized artistic depiction of trademarks. As…
Suing bloggers for dollars
Glenn Reynolds links to a an article in Wired about a newspaper “chain”‘s — actually, lawyer Steve Gibson’s — “new business model”: Suing bloggers who post newspaper articles, evidently more…