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Tag: Secondary Trademark Liability

Posted on October 21, 2022 Secondary Liability

eBay appeal: The gang’$ all here

Eric Krangel reports that Amazon and Google join in on the Tiffany v. eBay appeal: It’s not hard to see where the interest is coming... Read more

Posted on September 14, 2022 Counterfeiting & Piracy

Give the man credit

Judge Harold Baer of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (the “home court” for LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®)  has never been afraid to... 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 27, 2022 Fair Use

Best of 2009: The DMCA and the search engine

Posted on August 6, 2009. Traverse Legal: Mary Roach has a great post at CircleID on an area that we have talked about extensively, namely, copyright... Read more

Posted on May 20, 2022 Counterfeiting & Piracy

Poor eBay!

News item: eBay Beats The Street; Revenue Up 16 Percent To $2.5B; Net Income Up 12 Percent eBay just reported first quarter earnings today posting revenue of... Read more

Posted on November 13, 2021 Secondary Liability

Gucci v. Frontline Processing: Giving credit for infringement where it’s due

[stextbox id=”info”]This is an adaptation of a summary and analysis of the recent decision in Gucci America, Inc. v. Frontline Processing Corp., 2010 WL 2541367... Read more

Secondary Trademark Infringement by Jane Coleman
Posted on June 17, 2021 Advertisement

Secondary Trademark Infringement: Don’t wait for the movie!

Critics agree:  Buy the Jane Coleman and Griff Price’s Secondary Trademark Infringement from Bloomberg BNA –or you’re liable to miss the big one! Originally posted 2015-03-29 20:53:32.... 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 17, 2021 Counterfeiting & Piracy

Credit card companies get green light to profit from, enable Internet piracy

Reuters reports that in Perfect 10, Inc. v. Visa Intl. Serv. Assn., 494 F.3d 788, 793 (9th Cir. 2007) the Ninth Circuit has affirmed (opinion here), 2-1, a... Read more

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

eBay wins Tiffany case

Reuters reports that Tiffany’s gamble has not paid off: EBay Inc scored a major legal victory on Monday, when a federal judge ruled that Tiffany... 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 Internet Law Trademarks and trademark law

“Just taking orders” doesn’t cut it for eBay in Germany

eBay evidently got rocked by Rolex* in its German litigation this year, and we may never have heard about it if not for a securities... Read more

Posted on May 25, 2021 Counterfeiting & Piracy

Best of 2011: Poor eBay!

First posted April 27, 2011.News item: eBay Beats The Street; Revenue Up 16 Percent To $2.5B; Net Income Up 12 Percent eBay just reported first quarter... Read more

Posted on November 1, 2019 Uncategorized

Digital analysis of images and counterfeiting

Yahoo! News: Swedish start-up Polar Rose plans to make its face recognition service publicly available on the Web in the second quarter of 2008 as... 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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