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Tag: Trademarks and trademark law

Posted on January 15, 2023 Rights of Publicity and Personality

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

Posted on December 20, 2022 Brand Management and Branding 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

Stormtroopers
Posted on November 10, 2022 Costumes and Clothing

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

Posted on November 7, 2022 Counterfeiting & Piracy Trademarks and trademark law

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

Posted on November 1, 2022 Fair Use

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

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 October 19, 2022 Internet Law Trademarks and trademark law

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

Posted on October 14, 2022 Law Practice and Profession

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

Posted on October 10, 2022 Trademarks and trademark law

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

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 September 23, 2022 Costumes and Clothing

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

Posted on September 2, 2022 Trademarks and trademark law

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

Posted on August 26, 2022 Defamation

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

Posted on August 18, 2022 Costumes and Clothing

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

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