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Posted on July 5, 2021 Brand Management and Branding

Big Green’s Ethiopian trademark problem

The Australian reports that earlier news about a resolution of Starbucks’ trademark problems with the Ethiopian coffee thing was perhaps over-caffeinated. UPDATE:  Have things perked... Read more

Posted on June 17, 2021 Free Expression

Speech and — more? — speech re Russ Feingold

Don’t say they’re anything but — what’s the term? — “fair and balanced” over at Randazza’s Legal Satyricon blog when it comes to the post-mortem... Read more

Posted on June 17, 2021 Everything else

New AG OK

The increasingly ubiquitous Marc Randazza pronounces, on the INTA list: In doing some research on the new Attorney General nominee, I discovered that he was... Read more

Posted on June 2, 2021 Trademarks and trademark law

Steal your plate

The Jews take a worldwide day off from eating, and what happens when they sit down and pick up their forks and knives to dig... Read more

Posted on May 24, 2021May 28, 2021 Copyright Law

For copyright, a crown

Last post: Copyright ridiculous. This post: Copyright sublime. From Wired (via Jane Coleman, who found it on Instapundit): U.S. lawmakers approved the creation of a... Read more

College Belushi
Posted on November 18, 2019December 16, 2019 Free Expression

First Amendment Lives on Campus (at least a little)

The online New York Law Journal (sub. required) reports on an important free speech case: Vesting a student association with virtually unbridled discretion in doling... Read more

Posted on September 18, 2019 Free Expression

Kinsley on The New York Times’ next First Amendment embarrassment

Not a lot of time to blog these days but this Slate piece from Michael Kinsley is a must-read. Excerpt: [T]he Times believes that its... Read more

Posted on January 8, 2019 Copyright Law Fair Use Free Expression

YouTube, the DMCA and politics — again

Slashdot reports: It appears that CBS and Fox have submitted DMCA takedown notices to YouTube for videos from the McCain campaign. The campaign is now... Read more

If You See Something, Say Something
Posted on December 31, 2015 Brand Management and Branding Trademarks and trademark law

Best of 2010: If you see something… it’s probably “trademarked”

First published on May 12, 2010. A while ago, while obsessing about New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority and its obsession with turning what might have... Read more

Posted on October 6, 2011 Fair Use Free Expression Internet Law Politics Trademarks and trademark law

Google using trademark policy to shield MoveOn?

(UPDATED, revised). That’s what Bob Cox is reporting in this story in the Examiner; more here. Google said it would not run anti-MoveOn ads because... Read more

Kalashnikov
Posted on June 28, 2010October 13, 2010 Counterfeiting & Piracy Trademarks and trademark law

From Russia, without royalties

The Kalashnikov rifle: Naked trademark licensing (“I take them into my hands and, my goodness, the marks are foreign,” [General Kalashnikov] said of the knockoffs... Read more

If You See Something, Say Something
Posted on May 12, 2010April 16, 2012 Brand Management and Branding Trademarks and trademark law

If you see something… it’s probably “trademarked”

A while ago, while obsessing about New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority and its obsession with turning what might have once merely been viewed as functional... 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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