Originally posted 2015-06-19 15:13:45. Republished by Blog Post PromoterThe approved and publishable amicus briefs in the appeal regarding the trademark registration of THE SLANTS are trickling in. Certainly interesting to see who is saying what.  So far, they all seem to be on the side of The Slants, though interestingly the INTA amicus brief does not […]

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Originally posted 2006-12-01 16:51:18. Republished by Blog Post PromoterMichael Atkins debuts his Seattle Trademark Lawyer blog with a nice post about a ruling denying insurance coverage to a retailer that has to go into its pocket to destroy counterfeit merchandise. (NB to Trademark lawyers and those who play them on TV: Are you advising your […]

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Originally posted 2014-10-06 09:52:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter I’m biased in reviewing the 6th edition of the only comprehensive single-volume — Well, there you go.  Bias number one:  As far as I can tell, Siegrun Kane’s Kane on Trademark Law: A Practitioner’s Guide is the definitive comprehensive single volume on trademark practice.  I have […]

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Originally posted 2011-12-07 18:16:59. Republished by Blog Post PromoterDiscussing trademark law blogging with a colleague last night, I was asked whether I’d written anything about the EAT MORE KALE story.  In order to excuse my laziness, I said, well, these low-hanging-fruit items that everyone is busy with, why, I let everyone else opine on them, […]

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Originally posted 2011-05-23 16:57:09. Republished by Blog Post PromoterIt had to happen — another piece of territory now being rented out in the Lanham-Act-as-competition-buster industry: A new service has announced that it will scoop up the Google infringements for ya for a few kopeks. Their proud slogan: “Online trademark infringement is the act of using […]

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Originally posted 2013-08-05 13:37:42. Republished by Blog Post PromoterHow much dumb can possibly be fit into a size two?  Walter Olson rounds it up: Ralph Lauren lawyers: don’t you dare reproduce our skinny-model photo in the course of criticizing our use of skinny models [BoingBoing] With photoshop, evidently, quite a bit!  Here’s an excerpt from […]

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Originally posted 2014-12-09 11:06:44. Republished by Blog Post PromoterMcDermott Will & Emery has published an article on the Mondaq website (registration required) about a Seventh Circuit decision in which a losing party was required to pay the plaintiff’s attorneys’ fees because of gross misbehavior during the litigation. According to the piece, and confirmed by this […]

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