2017

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legalzoom trademarks

LegalForce RAPC is a law firm that is a large filer of trademark applications. It is wholly owned by Raj Abhyanker. LegalForce Inc. is a corporation that offers the TRADEMARKIA search service. LegalZoom offers automated legal document preparation services, including trademark application and preparation and filing. It provides access to an ‘independent network of attorneys’

bill lee sports illustrated

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Bill Lee was a left-handed pitcher, most notably for the Red Sox during the 70’s, at a time when left-handers were the target of unthinking prejudice. As a fellow-left-hander, I always had a soft spot for him after his quote that left-handers are the only one in the their right minds (brain hemisphere dominance joke).

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Pictured above: OSP Losing DMCA Safe Harbor Protection Off Nantucket, William Bradford, ca. 1860, courtesy Met Museum of Art.

At the end of last year, the U.S. Copyright Office implemented a new online registration system for DMCA agent designations which replaces paper designations with online registration. At the end of this year, agent designations

Amicus brief by Professors Eugene Volokh and Dale Carpenter in Masterpiece Cakeshop (the gay wedding cake case). Question presented:

Whether a requirement to bake a wedding cake should be viewed as a “speech compulsion” akin to a requirement to write, sing, paint, or photograph.

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I apologize for being a little tardy in my blogging. From September: SDNY holds that WHO’S HOLIDAY, a play picking up the story of Cindy-Lou Who from “The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, as an unhappy adult living in a trailer, is a lawful parody.

Favorite passage:

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This should be interesting. Guinness Book of World Records sues Scholastic alleging trade dress infringement of its covers (See covers above).

Guinness argues that the cover ‘is in essence the “packaging” of GWR’s product . . . thus, GWR is not required to demonstrate the existence of secondary meaning.’ (see pages 5-6). The memo of

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Ticketmaster v Prestige Entertainment, et. al., CD Cal, complaint filed yesterday:

Ticketmaster sells tickets online using its website and mobile apps. Its terms of use prohibits bots (software scripts designed to run tasks ‘at a far higher rate than would be possible for a human alone.’ It uses various methods to prohibit the use