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• Small Business Legal Issues: Trade Names, Logos and Trademark Law

  
  crowdSPRING Blog — Authority: 494
  Prior to crowdSPRING, I was a lawyer for 13 years - focusing on complex commercial and intellectual property litigation. This is the second in what will be a regular feature in our blog discussing important legal issues that impact every small business. What is a Trademark? Trademark law prevents ...
  22 hours ago

• Law Firm & Ex-Associate Litigate Badmouth Blog Battle in State & Federal Court

  
  ABA Journal Top Stories — Authority: 678
  A war of words between Levinson Axelrod and ex-associate Edward Harrington Heyburn is now in litigation. The New Jersey-based personal injury law firm filed an order to show cause in state court in Middlesex County Superior Court last week, seeking a shutdown order concerning the website in which Heyburn criticizes ...
  1 day ago

• 7th Circuit Case Should Serve As A Reminder To Business Attorneys

  
  IP Law Blog — Authority: 403
  by Scott Hervey Recently the 7 th Circuit in Sunstar, Inc. v. Alberto-Culver Company provided a reminder to attorneys engaging in a business transaction between domestic and a foreign parties. Stated plainly, the 7 th Circuit reminded business attorneys that if a term is included in a transaction document – ...
  5 days ago

• Jenzabar: Blogs are sticks and stones; they hurt me.

  
  LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION — Authority: 136
  Jenzabar, the educational software company Paul Levy and I mentioned last month (and which Overlawyered picked up) in connection with its “trademark as censorship tool” litigation, is back at it again — and not a little clumsily, for all its cleverness.  As Paul reports, the company’s lawyers arenow claiming ...
  6 days ago

• Whaddya know!

  
  LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION — Authority: 136
  The Mustang Ranch trademark case has finally been resolved — and it turns out that prostitute proprietor Lance Gilman gets to claim the trademark for the whorehouse he done boughten after all.  Ho-ho-ho!Originally posted 2006-12-17 11:21:24. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
  6 days ago

• Free Credit Report (dot) TM?

  
  madisonian.net — Authority: 497
  With thanks to my colleague Cassandra Robertson for bring this article in yesterday’s NY Times to my attention.  The article describes ongoing battles between the FTC and Experian to have Experian stop using the “freecreditreport.com” domain name for credit monitoring services that are not, in fact, free.  ...
  1 week ago

• UK Lawyers Set to Stock Supermarket Shelves for Client, Delaying Case

  
  ABA Journal Top Stories — Authority: 678
  Lawyers with the British law firm Pinsent Mason will be stocking supermarket shelves at Asda, delaying a trademark dispute involving the U.K. supermarket chain. Asdas counsel, Hugh Cuddigan, asked the High Court to push back a January trial date because Pinsents lawyers were going to be busy stocking shelves over the ...
  1 week ago

• Turning back that Crimson Tide

  
  LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION — Authority: 136
  Trademark law does not trump the right to make and sell artistic depictions of real life after all, it turns out.  Or even NCAA football.Almost exactly four years ago I wrote about the suit by the University of Alabama urging the obnoxious claim that artistic depictions of its players at play were, by virtue of [...]
  1 week ago

• Alabama Artist Strikes a Blow for the First Amendment

  
  Legal Schnauzer — Authority: 471
  One of our major themes over the past 18 months is that the University of Alabama System is run by clueless administrators, who are enabled by a worthless cadre of lawyers. A federal judges ruling yesterday in a lawsuit involving sports artist Daniel Moore confirms our suspicion that UA currently is run by a bunch ...
  1 week ago

• Carpenter Awarded Iowa 2009 Inventor of the Year

  
  BlawgIT — Authority: 103
  An Overnight Success, Ten Years in the Making Tom Carpenter accomplished what every inventor strives for, but very few attain. He is a success. Over the years I have learned to meter the likelihood of a product’s success on the inventor, not the invention. From the first time I met Tom, over a decade ago, I knew he ...
  1 week ago

• Ex-Associate Badmouths Former Firm in Legal Blog

  
  ABA Journal Top Stories — Authority: 678
  It isnt what an attorney would generally recommend to a client. But attorney Edward Harrington Heyburn says he was willing to risk litigation when he created a legal blog that badmouths partners at the New Jersey law firm at which he formerly worked, Levinson Axelrod. His Levinson Axelrod Sucks blog "isnt exactly risk ...
  1 week ago

• Signifiers in Cyberspace … at Case

  
  madisonian.net — Authority: 497
  In case anyone is going to be in or around Cleveland on November 12-13 (and needs a break after the hiring conference!), we are hosting a symposium on trademark and domain name issues in cyberspace with a terrific group of speakers.  Keynotes to be provided by Daniel Gervais (Vanderbilt) who will be speaking on ...
  1 week ago

• Trademark Basics: Dilution

  
  IP Law Blog — Authority: 403
  By Jeff Pietsch Not all trademark law is aimed at protecting consumers. The Federal Trademark Dilution Act (“Act”) is aimed at protecting a company’s property right in its trademark. Dilution is defined as “the lessening of the capacity of a famous mark to identify and distinguish goods or services, ...
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• Chamber of Commerce Sues ‘Yes Men’ for Fake News Conference (See Video)

  
  ABA Journal Top Stories — Authority: 678
  A group of pranksters called the Yes Men is facing a lawsuit for impersonating the U.S. Chamber of Commerce at a news conference. The chamber is suing the Yes Men for trademark infringement, unfair competition and false advertising, according to the Wall Street Journal’s Washington Wire blog. The suit (PDF posted by ...
  2 weeks ago

• Employment Law in a Social Networking, New Media World

  
  The-Informer — Authority: 157
  I am quoted in a FOXBusiness small business article on how employers can protect their intellectual property rights in a Facebook/Twitter social networking world: In an age of way-too-much information and widespread social-networking addiction, businesses are finding it increasingly difficult to protect trade ...
  2 weeks ago

• Intellectual Property Protection in a Social Networking World

  
  The-Informer — Authority: 157
  I am quoted in a FOXBusiness small business article on protecting intellectual property rights in a Facebook/Twitter social networking world: Friend it, follow it or link to it. Brainstorming, would-be entrepreneurs around the world are continuously connecting through social networking sites such as Facebook, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Another Way to Understand Twilight and Authors

  
  madisonian.net — Authority: 497
  Apparently Stephenie Meyer, the author of the Twilight series, started writing a version of the series from a different character’s (Edward’s) point of view and the early, incomplete draft was leaked onto the Internet. Jacqui Lipton’s post about Stephenie Meyer’s “reaction to the unauthorized release” of ...
  2 weeks ago

• FTC Endorsement Guides Impact Bloggers and Twitterers

  
  IPWatchdog.com | Patents & Patent Law — Authority: 600
  I just gained another new follower on Twitter (IP_Privacy), and when I went to my Twitter account to follow in return I noticed they had tweeted an article from the Washington Post regarding the FTC setting endorsement rules for bloggers.  It seems that the Federal Trade Commission has decided to update the ...
  3 weeks ago

• When is a Cell Phone Not a Cell Phone?

  
  madisonian.net — Authority: 497
  As I have noted often in the past, IP law sometimes echoes Dr. Seuss. Do we have One Thing or Two Things? Things matter, again. I’m catching up with a district court case from earlier this month, in which the court wrestled with the following argument: A cell phone is sold to a consumer and “locked” to a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Comparative Advertising: BK vs. McDonalds and Wendy’s

  
  IPWatchdog.com | Patents & Patent Law — Authority: 600
  Today I was searching the Internet for some interesting news to write about and I stumbled upon a press release from Burger King regarding its a ¼ pound Double Cheeseburger now being available for only $1. In some markets the ¼ pound Double Cheeseburger has been available for $1 for the past 18 months, but ...
  3 weeks ago

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