
Domain names and fair use
The continuum of defenses to claims sounding in trademark that runs from free speech, through fair use to nominative fair use is a longtime topic... Read more
Lawyer Ron Coleman on brands, the Internet & free speech
The continuum of defenses to claims sounding in trademark that runs from free speech, through fair use to nominative fair use is a longtime topic... Read more
The Trademark Troll, a blog written by former Harley Davidson IP counsel Dick Troll, comments on the S&L Vitamins case: Almost every case involving the... Read more
The Supreme Court handed down a huge decision in copyright law today, ruling in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. that the first sale doctrine, which... Read more
The Gray Blog reports that the Canadian Supreme Court has rejected an attempt — the sort made all day all over North America — to... Read more
During my traditional end-of-December goof-off here I didn’t pay adequate attention to the important non-ruling in Costco v. Omega, which involves an issue I have... Read more
On the occasion of the S&L Vitamins v. Australian Gold trial, I reposted what I wrote here six months earlier about the first of these... Read more
Unfortunately for future defendants in the position of our client, Internet retailer S&L, U.S. District Judge James Teilborg’s decision from the bench in the District... Read more
We already covered the Designer Skin v. S&L Vitamins summary judgment decision, and linked to commentators Greg Beck, Bill Patry, Rebecca Tushnet, Eric Goldman and... Read more
The District of Arizona ruled today in a case we defended through trial and have reported on here extensively. The decision is here; the minute... Read more
Here’s S&L Vitamin’s Trial Brief for the trial scheduled for next week in the above-entitled cause. (Or you can read it at the bottom of... Read more
The Supreme Court handed down a huge decision in copyright law today, ruling in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. that the first sale doctrine, which... Read more
Not that the plaintiffs in the Designer Skin case didn’t get an injunction: They did (here it is); a narrow one utilizing proposed language by... Read more
UPDATE: All the below is still very relevant, very important and very significant — except as to the final judgment, which has been vacated by... Read more
The remaining issues in the case, you may recall, were copyright infringement and Arizona unfair competition. Here is the status per this morning’s minute entry... Read more