Trademarks
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E And J Gallo Sends Cease And Desist Trademark Notice To E And B Beer
It’s time to lay off the egregious trademark claims.
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Monster Energy Attempts To Run From Laughable Trademark Spat It Started With Thunder Beast Root Beer
Red Bull gives you wings, Monster gives you ridiculous trademark fights.
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Contests, Small Law Firms, Technology
This Week In Legal Tech: Startups To Face Off At ABA TECHSHOW
Good luck to these twelve worthy finalists!
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Sure, this is what trademarks are for…
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Another Free Speech Win In Libel Lawsuit Disguised As A Trademark Complaint
Finding critical speech that results in revenue a violation of the Lanham Act would… well, it would be stupid.
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Nine Years Later, Patriots Get ’19-0′ And ‘Perfect Season’ Trademarks, Despite Doing Neither
Where, exactly, do they use this in commerce?
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Supreme Court Delves Into Question Of Whether Or Not You Can Trademark ‘Disparaging’ Terms
Things not looking good for the USPTO.
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Butterball Sues Australian Wine Company Over Its ‘Butterball’ Chardonnay
OK this is getting absurd.
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Contests, Small Law Firms, Technology
This Week In Legal Tech: The Winners Of The TECHSHOW Startup Alley Competition
Congratulations to the winners, and thanks to all the contestants and voters.
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Gone To Pot: The Toronto Maple Leafs And Snoop D-Oh-Double-G In Trademark Spat
Why is a hockey team going after Snoop?
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Contests, Small Law Firms, Technology
This Week In Legal Tech: Vote For Your Favorite Startup
There’s a whole lot of innovation going on in the legal technology space.
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Basketball, Football, Gay, Gay Marriage, Google / Search Engines, Intellectual Property, Law Schools, Morning Docket, SCOTUS, Sex, Sex Scandals, Sports, Supreme Court, Technology, Trademarks
* It’s official: “law school grads face worst job market in more than 30 years.” Put that in your TTT pipe and smoke it. [Chicago Tribune]
* Not sure how good of a “cyber spy” you can be if you’re getting sued in federal court for things like cybersquatting and trademark infringement. [MarketWatch]
* Jerry Sandusky was convicted — oh Lord, he was convicted — Friday evening, and now his attorneys say they weren’t allowed to resign right before the trial. [CBS News]
* The New York Times has caught Linsanity, or at least it has caught an interest in the trademark case for Jeremy Lin’s popular catchphrase. [New York Times]
* It was Gay Pride weekend across the country. Practically speaking, for most people this meant lots of unexpected traffic jams and random glitter bombings. Evan Wolfson, a prominent attorney, was the Grand Marshal of the Chicago Pride Parade. [Chicago Sun-Times]
* Will today be the day we get the Obamacare decision? Who knows. In the meantime, here’s an interview with the folks behind the wonderful SCOTUSblog. [Forbes]
* The judge accused of elder abuse, in Alameda County, California, is still on the bench, but he has been relegated to handling small claims court. [Mercury News]
* An owner of the Miami Heat has sued Google and a blogger over an “unflattering” photo. I guess once you win an NBA championship, it leaves you with a lot of free time for other important pursuits. [CNN]
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Copyright, Crime, Intellectual Property, Morning Docket, Technology, Trademarks, Twittering
* A U.S. congressional panel has voted to charge Attorney General Eric Holder with contempt of Congress. [Thomson Reuters News and Insight]
* Paul Ceglia’s motion to stay discovery, pending the resolution of his motion to disqualify Facebook’s attorneys, was denied. In last night’s ruling, the judge was less than sympathetic to Ceglia. [United States District Court Western District of New York]
* We wrote about Thomas Jefferson Law grad Michael Wallerstein‘s struggles with a quarter million dollars in law school debt last year. But it looks like he may have found an unorthodox, if not somewhat dodgy, escape route. On the other hand, maybe he’s gone out of the frying pan into the fire. [New York Post]
* The McCormick legal recruiting firm sued one of its former account managers for violating a noncompete clause. Fun times were had by all no one. [Blog of the Legal Times]
* The lawyer going after The Oatmeal and the charities benefiting from the “Bear Love Cancer Bad” campaign has now subpoenaed Twitter and ArsTechica. That’s pretty impressive for just about a week of work. [ArsTechica]
* An online knitting community feels the wrath of the U.S. Olympic Committee’s intellectual property enforcement team. [Gawker]
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Cyberlaw, Intellectual Property, Technology, Trademarks
Under New Internet Rules, URLs Like AboveTheLaw.YourMom Will Soon Be Available
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has been busy lately. First, the Southern California-based non-profit responsible for the Internet’s address system created a porn-only, top-level domain. And on January 12, ICANN will start allowing people to register top-level domains of whatever they want. .Com, .net, and .org — your days of tyranny are […]
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Cyberlaw, Facebook, Intellectual Property, Social Networking Websites, Technology, Trademarks
Model Who Says, ‘I’m Too Sexy For This Trademark’ Loses $81K Suit
The Internet may be infinite, but people still are constantly fighting over online real estate. It happens in the porn industry, and it happens to celebrities. Even Miami Dolphins cheerleaders have to fight for their right to party at their own website. The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida recently ruled in […]
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Intellectual Property, Technology, Trademarks
Apple News That Only Kind of Relates to the New iPad
One morning last week, I walked past dozens of loyal Apple customers lined up to buy the new iPad 2. I scoffed as I walked by, my old, beat-up iPod nano playing in my ears. I also had the misfortune of walking past the same store later in the evening. A sign in the doorway […]