Skip to content
LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™

LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™

Ron Coleman on the law affecting brands, the Internet & free speech

  • Legal standards for likelihood of confusion
  • Home
  • Video
  • Publications
    • Play-Doh’s trademark registration passes the smell test
    • Social Media and Proving Secondary Meaning
    • Slants, Redskins and other “Disparaging” Trademarks
    • Bully for Who? How trademark bullying works
    • Copycats on the Superhighway
    • Prudential Standing: Who is ‘Any Person’ Under the Lanham Act?
    • Hacker with a White Hat
    • Trademark, Copyright, and the Internet: Time to Return Balance to Civil Litigation
    • Hands off blogs: Mandatory disclosure of “blogola”?
    • Bloggers, Journalists, Reporting and Privilege
    • “Initial Interest Confusion”: Compounding the Error
  • More
    • Privacy Policy
    • Opposition brief of Gavin McInnes to motion to dismiss by SPLC
    • Statutory damages in copyright cases
    • A Theory of Trademarks in the Blog Era
      • Managing Risk: Litigation Prophylaxis in High-Tech Agreements
    • I’m high-ranked and I know it
    • The Endless Summer: Student Lawyer magazine, March 1989
    • Asymmetric Cultural Warfare
    • Blawg Review #2 (April 17, 2005)
    • Copycats on the Superhighway
    • The Endless Summer: Student Lawyer magazine, March 1989
  • Motions to Dismiss
  • Bio and Contact

Tag: PTO Practice

Posted on December 10, 2012 Trademarks and trademark law

Keeping it real — the ultimate use in commerce

The TTABlog® reports, again, on the fraud issue, but that’s not what interests me here so much this time.  Rather, it’s the question of the... Read more

Posted on November 20, 2012December 4, 2012 TTAB Practice

Best of 2008: “‘Scandalousness’ Remains a Lightning Rod at the TTAB'” (September)

This was posted on September 24, 2008: John Welch reports on an interesting, not quite safe for home viewing case called Boston Red Sox Baseball... Read more

Posted on October 12, 2011December 28, 2014 Trademarks and trademark law

Hold the center!

John Thomas at the Pittsburgh IP Law Blog picks up on an interesting phenomenon concerning center-centric trademark registration applications: If the mark you are trying... Read more

Posted on September 27, 2011September 27, 2011 Stealing the Language

Gadget goes gonzo

Updated (see below) in September, 2011: Firefly Digital explains the vision behind their, um, trademarks — including the one they claim a little outfit called... Read more

Posted on November 2, 2010November 10, 2010 Trademarks and trademark law

But you let THEM register a trademark like that!

Michael Hall of Registration Ruminations is wrestling, as more and more trademark practitioners are, with the increasingly ubiquitous problem of inconsistency within the PTO on trademark... Read more

Posted on July 16, 2010July 21, 2010 Trademarks and trademark law

Victory for US GI’s Over Europe

“Geographic Indicators,” that is. The USPTO reports today that: the World Trade Organization (WTO) has released a panel report affirming the United States’ assertion that... Read more

Posted on January 22, 2010February 22, 2010 Uncategorized

Now that’s slow

The wheels of justice, they say, turn slowly.  The fact that they say this does not, however, in any way assuage clients, though it does... Read more

Posted on January 1, 2010January 1, 2010 Uncategorized

Best of 2009: “Fraud on the PTO: Is it real, or all in my mind?”

This was first posted on September 3, 2009. Big decision, via the TTABlog®: The worm, finally, finally, has turned on the issue of the cancellation... Read more

Posted on September 2, 2008June 25, 2014 Section 2(a)

Football Redskins live to fight another day

This story won’t die — especially judging from the prominence of related words among search terms that reach this blog.  The latest, which we missed... Read more

Posts navigation

← 1 2 3 4
  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • Instagram
  • Corporate Censorship in Social Media and a Role for the States

Ron Coleman of the DHILLON LAW GROUP

Click the pic for more information - admitted in New York and New Jersey

This blog

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.

PODCAST

ColemanNation

Commercial, Trademark and Free Speech Litigation at DHILLON LAW GROUP

https://youtu.be/iC2nZPc_THs

LIKELIHOOD OF ACCUMULATION

CATEGORIES (Still in progress…)

DISCLAIMER

THIS BLOG IS ONLY A BLOG, NOT LEGAL ADVICE. IT IS IN PART AN ADVERTISEMENT FOR LEGAL SERVICES BY RONALD D. COLEMAN, AN ATTORNEY ADMITTED IN NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY ONLY, WHO IS NOT YOUR LAWYER. YOU ARE NOT HIS CLIENT. JUST WALK BESIDE HIM AND BE HIS FRIEND.

This is my very special privacy policy.

THIS WEBSITE MAY BE CONSIDERED ATTORNEY ADVERTISING, DAMN IT

Tweets by likely2confuse
© 2022 LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™
 

Loading Comments...