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Tag: Secondary Liability

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

Posted on September 20, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2011-09-05 23:50:55. Republished by Blog Post PromoterIt’s here!  Jane Coleman on Secondary Trademark Infringement, the free (for now) online (for now) treatise has […]

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Secondary Liability

The Lanham Act’s surprising penumbras

Posted on August 9, 2018 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2013-07-15 15:43:01. Republished by Blog Post PromoterHere I thought I understood something about the Lanham Act.  But wait, there’s more!  Did you know this?: […]

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Enforcement

Best of 2013: The Lanham Act’s surprising penumbras

Posted on May 20, 2017 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2013-12-31 06:06:27. Republished by Blog Post PromoterFirst published on July 15, 2013. Here I thought I understood something about the Lanham Act.  But wait, […]

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Enforcement

GEICO Isn’t Good News for Google

Posted on December 3, 2014 by Ron Coleman

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 […]

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Keyword Advertising

But, of course

Posted on May 5, 2014 by Ron Coleman

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 […]

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Counterfeiting & Piracy, Fashion Law, Trademarks and trademark law

EFF backs eBay in Tiffany spat

Posted on April 9, 2014 by Ron Coleman

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 […]

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Secondary Liability, Trademarks and trademark law

eBay, VeRO and the Scientologists

Posted on September 3, 2013 by Ron Coleman

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, […]

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Fair Use

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

Posted on May 1, 2013 by Ron Coleman

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 […]

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Counterfeiting & Piracy, Fashion Law, Internet Law

Secondary liability conference Stanford thing

Posted on June 10, 2011 by Ron Coleman

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

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Secondary Liability

Secondary Trademark Infringement treatise updated for 2010-11

Posted on September 6, 2010 by Jane Coleman

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 […]

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Trademarks and trademark law

Home cookin’ a la mode, with a most undeserving dessert

Posted on April 2, 2010 by Ron Coleman

From the WSJ Law Blog: A French court today cracked down on counterfeits — and an outlet that sells them — ordering eBay to pay […]

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Counterfeiting & Piracy, Internet Law

Forget breakfast — eBay eats Tiffany’s lunch

Posted on April 1, 2010 by Ron Coleman

Something about a judge loves a fence, I guess–and not only fences like eBay.

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Counterfeiting & Piracy

Ninth Circuit: eBay not a portal to jurisdiction

Posted on February 12, 2010 by Ron Coleman

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 […]

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Internet Law

No one blinks

Posted on November 13, 2007 by Ron Coleman

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. […]

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Internet Law, Trademarks and trademark law

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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.

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