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Changing the IP Mentality

Posted on November 3, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2012-06-22 14:07:19. Republished by Blog Post PromoterMark V.B. Partridge, a partner at the firm that bears the name of my old trademark professor […]

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IP Overreaching

Taking the IP Train

Posted on April 19, 2016 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2010-09-06 16:08:53. Republished by Blog Post PromoterThe New York Times reported (yes, reg. req.) last week that New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority is […]

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Brand Management and Branding, Trademarks and trademark law

Best of 2011: What “beating Righthaven” means

Posted on May 22, 2014 by Ron Coleman

First posted November 3, 2011. Instapundit links to Donald Douglas’s blog post, Beating Righthaven.  Excerpt: Righthaven files “no warning” lawsuits. That is, it gives no advance […]

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Distribution systems

Great moments in trademark trolling

Posted on October 28, 2013 by Ron Coleman

CrunchGear: With Nuvio suing Garmin’s Nuviphone on fairly spurious grounds, let’s take a look at famous trademark wars of times past. A little more on […]

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Trademarks and trademark law

Unofficial, and in court

Posted on July 30, 2013 by Ron Coleman

Mike Mintz reports about a lawsuit brought in California by Brian Kopp, the publisher of an unofficial guidebook for a computer game called World of […]

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Brand Management and Branding, Fair Use, Free Expression

Copywrong

Posted on November 11, 2010 by Ron Coleman

Copyright doyen Bill Patry explains why he shut down his brilliant copyright law blog. Some of it had to do with his inability to prevent […]

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Blogging

Trademarks, copyright, brand equity, and rent-seeking: Soapbox 2010

Posted on January 17, 2010 by Ron Coleman

From last week’s INTA Trademark Topics email discussion list.  One name has been changed to protect the innocent, and the links, by way of annotation, […]

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IP Overreaching

Commercial, Trademark and Free Speech Litigation

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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 legal issues related to blogging. That may sound like a lot, but it's just a blog.

ron-coleman-lawyerAs for me, I'm Ron Coleman, a commercial litigator and a partner in the Dhillon Law Group with a special interest in copyright and trademark law and free speech. I was also the lead lawyer for The Slants, The Band Who Must Not be Named.

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