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Tag: Secondary Liability

Posted on October 9, 2022 Enforcement

Best of 2013: The Lanham Act’s surprising penumbras

First published on July 15, 2013. Here I thought I understood something about the Lanham Act.  But wait, there’s more!  Did you know this?: The purpose... Read more

Posted on July 5, 2022 Secondary Liability

Secondary liability conference Stanford thing

What if they called a conference on secondary liability on the Internet and no one told … well, me? It happens.  I mean, that people... Read more

Posted on May 9, 2022 Enforcement

The Lanham Act’s surprising penumbras

Here I thought I understood something about the Lanham Act.  But wait, there’s more!  Did you know this?: The purpose of the Lanham Act is to... Read more

Posted on December 22, 2021 Internet Law Trademarks and trademark law

No one blinks

Reuters reports that the Tiffany trademark suit against eBay is really going to trial. Really! I am sure no one expected this. I certainly didn’t.... Read more

Posted on November 16, 2021 Counterfeiting & Piracy Fashion Law Internet Law

Best of 2010: Forget breakfast — eBay eats Tiffany’s lunch

The Second Circuit, unsurprisingly according to most commentators, has affirmed the decision of the Southern District of New York refusing to find eBay liable for... Read more

Posted on June 17, 2021 Fair Use

eBay, VeRO and the Scientologists

Last February Scott Pilutik, an aggressively anti-religion blogger and lawyer, posted this excellent piece about the abuse by the Scientology cult of eBay’s VeRO program,... Read more

Posted on June 2, 2021 Secondary Liability

Jane Coleman’s “Secondary Trademark Infringement”: Update for 2011-12

It’s here!  Jane Coleman on Secondary Trademark Infringement, the free (for now) online (for now) treatise has been updated for the coming year.  Whereas last... Read more

Posted on June 2, 2021 Counterfeiting & Piracy Fashion Law Trademarks and trademark law

But, of course

Shoes are dropping all over Europe: L’Oreal, the world’s largest cosmetics group, has launched legal action against eBay, alleging the online auctioneer does not do... Read more

Posted on June 2, 2021 Trademarks and trademark law

Secondary Trademark Infringement treatise updated for 2010-11

From the Overview to the update of Secondary Trademark Infringement by Jane Coleman, which is now complete: Of all the contexts in which secondary liability has... Read more

Posted on May 28, 2021 Secondary Liability Trademarks and trademark law

EFF backs eBay in Tiffany spat

See, we don’t agree with Public Citizen all the time!  Read on, via the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF): [EFF] along with Public Citizen and Public... Read more

Posted on December 3, 2014December 30, 2014 Keyword Advertising

GEICO Isn’t Good News for Google

Remember the GEICO v. Google case? My former law partner and long-time spouse Jane Coleman does. She’s writing a chapter on secondary trademark infringement liability for... Read more

Posted on February 12, 2010February 17, 2010 Internet Law

Ninth Circuit: eBay not a portal to jurisdiction

We spill a lot of pixels here blogging about the question of just how transparent, nay ethereal, eBay is as, say, a facilitator of transactions... 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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