Free speech about trademarks and free speech
Ron ColemanSpeech about trademarks, trademark registrations and free speech have bubbled so verily to the top of the public imagination that it’s all over the official organ of free speech, the…
43(a)? It’s not for me to say
I’m kind of tired of In re Tam also. But I have been a bit surprised that there has not been a more discussion, or as far as I can…
So, how about those Redskins?
I’ve been writing about the Redskins and the tribulations — and, as it turns out, trials — of their REDSKINS trademarks since long before that first post about that rock…
Laws don’t kill free speech, legislators do
All is proceeding as I have foreseen: http://t.co/NMS2CBQjdO https://t.co/Mgi79j8ieP — Ron Coleman (@RonColeman) September 10, 2015
Another bad season for the Redskins
The Eastern District of Virginia has ruled (link to opinion here) on the summary judgment motions in Pro Football v. Blackhorse in the NFL’s appeal to the District Court of…
Friends of the court, friends of the First Amendment
The approved and publishable amicus briefs in the appeal regarding the trademark registration of THE SLANTS are trickling in. Certainly interesting to see who is saying what. So far, they…
The ACLU’s strange bedfellows
Here’s some news: The American Civil Liberties Union says the Redskins are wrong, damned wrong — but they’ve got every right in the world to be that way. They even…
Trademarks, the Redskins and the constitution
The NFL’s brief on the issue you’ve read about everywhere, including here, is now out and about (courtesy of John Welch): NFL v Blackhorse – The Redskins Brief
Indian givers (part 3)
Part one and part two of this three-part post were published earlier this week. When the PTO’s decision revoking the REDSKINS registrations was affirmed by the TTAB, I asked, as…
“Indian givers” (part 2)
Yesterday I ended part one of this post about a proposed law to outlaw any trademark registration rights for the NFL’s Washington Redskins with this question: Given the offensive nature…
“Indian givers” (part 1)
For years I’ve been complaining that so much of the excitement in intellectual property law jurisprudence these days involves policy-making by judges and the PTO. How and what is secondary…
Best of 2014: Redskins decision: The present judges the past
Originally posted on June 18, 2014. I’ve been writing about the dispute over the REDSKINS trademark on this blog more or less since the beginning of the blog itself. Today…
A certain NFL team is on the warpath
Sorry about the pun — but then again, I’m not the PTO; then again, too, my attitude toward “scandalous and offensive” ethnic marks is different from that of lots of…