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Posted on September 30, 2022 IP Overreaching

Changing the IP Mentality

Mark V.B. Partridge, a partner at the firm that bears the name of my old trademark professor and author of the Guiding Rights Blog [link is... Read more

Posted on January 5, 2022January 12, 2022 Brand Management and Branding

Taking the IP Train

The New York Times reported (yes, reg. req.) last week that New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority is scrambling to enforce trademark rights in its wide... Read more

Posted on August 26, 2021October 29, 2021 IP Overreaching

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

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,... Read more

Posted on May 22, 2014May 29, 2014 Distribution systems

Best of 2011: What “beating Righthaven” means

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... Read more

Posted on October 28, 2013 Trademarks and trademark law

Great moments in trademark trolling

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... Read more

Posted on November 11, 2010November 16, 2010 Blogging

Copywrong

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... 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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