Trademark rights in interdigitization
Nick Daly drops me a note to the effect that one Jay-Z, gazillionaire rhyming scatologist, has been sued by a professional perspirer and leaping stage... Read more
Tag: Trademarks and trademark law
SUPER HERO® my foot
UPDATE: Our NPR interview on this topic was on NPR’s “All Things Considered” just before 6 tonight. We blogged on this topic last week. Today... Read more
The dark side clouds everything
I am fascinated with IP disputes over costumes, and have written about a few of them. I have also linked to this piece by Bill... Read more
Gibson continues its IP-based business plan
“You’re gonna have to face it, you’re addicted to law!” Well, that’s what the song always sounded like to me. When you’re a hammer… (and... Read more
MTA’s way or the highway
I’ve been watching these guys at the MTA and their IP enforcement program for a while now. Once was for a client, who, regrettably, didn’t... Read more
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
Survey: Users Confuse Search Results, Ads
Speaking of my post from yesterday, below — wow. Survey: Users Confuse Search Results, Ads. Hard to see how this doesn’t have some effect on... Read more
Not my money
Last June, blogging about my presentation to the Copyright Society on the Righthaven litigation, I wrote the following: This brings us to the issue of... Read more
Major League Baseball – SDNY Balks?
A potentially troubling (from the teams’ point of view) thought from the Southern District of New York in a case brought by Major League Baseball... Read more
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
H.R. Pufnstuf, Call Your Lawyer
Via Techlaw Advisor [UPDATE: shuttered], a link to a very smart copyright blog from a member of the firm that cleaned my clock in 1998.... Read more
Best of 2009: “Keeping it real — the ultimate use in commerce”
This was first posted on May 7, 2009. The TTABlog® reports, again, on the fraud issue, but that’s not what interests me here so much... Read more
Best of 2009: The best of the best. Of the bestest.
Only Marc Randazza can put certain things in certain ways — and on those occasions when he’s actually right (like when he’s discussing law and... Read more
Best of 2008: Tackiness not grounds for refusal to register
[Posted December 1, 2008.] Otherwise, why would John Welch be reporting this appeal?: December 4, 2008 – 10 AM: In re Chippendales USA, LLC, Serial... Read more