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http://www.likelihoodofconfusion.com/ - IP maven Ron Coleman blogs on trademark, copyright, new media and free speech

likelihoodofconfusion.com - 46 hours ago
Blog o’ briefs
— likelihoodofconfusion.com — Just found this blog called Trademark Law Briefs. It’s all Ninth Circuit stuff — which is plenty.... It’s short little “briefs” summarizing recent trademark law decisions in that August federal Circuit, by California lawyer Cynthia Jones. I’d say if you mainly ... (more) Blog o’ briefs

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“Consumer fraud”: The new online speech control law?
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“Consumer fraud”: The new online speech control law?
— likelihoodofconfusion.com — Originally posted 2008-03-19 13:10:44. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Get this: New Jersey prosecutors have subpoenaed records... of JuicyCampus.com, a Web site that publishes anonymous, often malicious gossip about college students. Language on the site ranges from catty to hateful and ... (more) “Consumer fraud”: The new online speech ...
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What Brown can do to you
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What Brown can do to you
— likelihoodofconfusion.com — Originally posted 2008-03-27 17:30:20. Republished by Blog Post PromoterGo figure: United Parcel Service Inc., the world’s largest... package-delivery company, sued a lawyer in Lakewood, N.J., for trademark infringement. Samuel Z. Brown, of The Law Offices of Samuel Z. Brown, infringed the ... (more) What Brown can do to you

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Settling in
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Settling in
— likelihoodofconfusion.com — Originally posted 2007-09-07 13:37:25. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Foley Square viewOriginally uploaded by Ron Coleman I... took this view of Foley Square, where the courthouses and many other public buildings in Manhattan are, when I stopped to eat a bite before attending a mediation before ... (more) Settling in
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Trademark rights in interdigitization
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Trademark rights in interdigitization
— likelihoodofconfusion.com — Originally posted 2007-05-15 21:32:04. Republished by Blog Post PromoterNick 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 goon called Diamond Dallas Page — ach! my kingdom for a stage name! ... (more) Trademark rights in interdigitization
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Eat here, get gas. But not if you’re Jewish!
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Eat here, get gas. But not if you’re Jewish!
— likelihoodofconfusion.com — Yes, that’s the famous old joke on the roadside filling station sign. Well, not the second part.... But evidently it’s not a laughing matter at Luke Oil, which overstepped the bounds of what is and isn’t kosher in trademarks: Lawyers for the Orthodox Union, a kosher food ... (more) Eat here, get gas. But not if you’re Jewish!

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A letter to a new lawyer
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A letter to a new lawyer
— likelihoodofconfusion.com — Originally posted 2008-01-14 21:54:01. Republished by Blog Post PromoterIn the form of Blawg Review!... (more) A letter to a new lawyer
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Adam Smith, Esq. and the AmLaw 100
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Adam Smith, Esq. and the AmLaw 100
— likelihoodofconfusion.com — Originally posted 2006-05-08 12:26:02. Republished by Blog Post PromoterBruce McEwen at Adam Smith, Esq. talks about his... own brush with the IP owners’ bar, in particular in connection with his dicing and slicing the AmLaw 100, and runs through another version of the “sweat of the ... (more) Adam Smith, Esq. and the AmLaw 100

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He’s got the key
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He’s got the key
— likelihoodofconfusion.com — Eric Goldman, author of one of the bona-fide-deserving, regularly updated, ABA-Blawg-100-listed and actually fairly indispensable Technology &... Marketing Law Blog updates us on a beat I’ve written on a whole bunch but given up hope on following comprehensively. It is, however, a topic ... (more) He’s got the key

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Creeping famous-mark-ism
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Creeping famous-mark-ism
— likelihoodofconfusion.com — Originally posted 2008-03-24 09:00:57. Republished by Blog Post PromoterThe TTABlog® comments on a TTAB decision finding, not... surprisingly, that two similar looking trademarks are likely to be confused, but raises a key point about how the brand-equity-rich really are different: I think the ... (more) Creeping famous-mark-ism

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No “30% solution”
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No “30% solution”
— likelihoodofconfusion.com — Here I am, sitting 44 stories above the Garment District itself (when I’m not standing under its... immortal needle, shown at left), and I needed Staci Riordan’s new fashion IP blog all the way out on the Left Coast to tell me about the “30% rule” which she, wisely, advises ... (more) No “30% solution”
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Starting ‘em out young
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Starting ‘em out young
— likelihoodofconfusion.com — Originally posted 2007-02-11 19:43:15. Republished by Blog Post PromoterCounterfeit Chic looks at tomorrow’s counterfeiters. Well, that’s how... Susan looks at them, anyway. When you’re a carpenter everything looks like a nail, you know? (more) Starting ‘em out young
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Dirty laundry
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Dirty laundry
— likelihoodofconfusion.com — Originally posted 2007-07-12 13:20:00. Republished by Blog Post PromoterUsing the names of fallen soldiers on t-shirts to... make a political statement is in poor taste, but should it be — as is evidently now the law in Arizona — illegal? No, because there’s a Constitution, and ... (more) Dirty laundry
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Google AdWords litigation
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Google AdWords litigation
— likelihoodofconfusion.com — Originally posted 2007-04-06 11:09:57. Republished by Blog Post PromoterEric Goldman reports on Feldman v. Google — more... Google AdWords litigation. As Eric explains, more is less. This is especially true here: Snarky aside: There’s one more fact in common between Person and ... (more) Google AdWords litigation

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Diversion, yes, but no
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Diversion, yes, but no
— likelihoodofconfusion.com — Some people have all the luck in the Eastern District of New York. Whereas me — I... think I’ve got it coming to me right down the middle, and then it seems to get, I don’t know — diverted from me! So some lawyers get assigned judges in the Eastern District of New York ... (more) Diversion, yes, but no

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Big break
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Big break
— likelihoodofconfusion.com — Originally posted 2007-05-21 17:46:05. Republished by Blog Post PromoterLIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION is now a registered trademark of... your humble blogger. This is the kind of spontaneous publicity I need! My name in print! That really makes somebody! Things are going to start happening to me ... (more) Big break
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Q the Lawyers
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Q the Lawyers
— likelihoodofconfusion.com — Originally posted 2005-03-27 00:00:00. Republished by Blog Post PromoterA report in the online Financial Express says that... Nissan is suing Audi over “Q.” To wit: “We are seeking to bar Audi from using any names that could infringe on Nissan’s right over the letter ‘Q’,” she ... (more) Q the Lawyers
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“I have been Foolish and Deluded,” said he, “and I am a Bear of no Brain at ...
— likelihoodofconfusion.com — Originally posted 2007-02-11 12:53:51. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to... ask someone what you are looking for before you begin looking for it. The Winnie the Pooh litigation takes another “Explore”: In the latest move in a long struggle ... (more) “I have been Foolish and Deluded,” said he, ...
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Death By Lawyer
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Death By Lawyer
— likelihoodofconfusion.com — Originally posted 2007-06-13 20:42:40. Republished by Blog Post PromoterThey make that sound like a bad thing. Now,... I wouldn’t agree with each and every little thing Stan Schroeder, the author of this article on Mashable, says — such as this about MP3.com of blessed memory: In 2000, ... (more) Death By Lawyer
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Ode to the Code
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Ode to the Code
— likelihoodofconfusion.com — Originally posted 2007-03-12 00:44:37. Republished by Blog Post PromoterYehuda Berlinger, whose poetic version of the Lanham Act... we linked to anon, also did the Copyright Act last summer. Somehow I missed it, but since then I’ve been doing a lot more copyright litigation anyway, so I can ... (more) Ode to the Code
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