Ohio State's trademark request for 'The' denied – News – The Columbus Dispatch – Columbus, OH https://t.co/aPGph66s1g

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New filing in Roy Moore v. Sacha Baron Cohen: Memorandum of Law in Support of Motionhttps://t.co/ra4EL0M1pO pic.twitter.com/W3SAe6gPjG

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Sneakers: The Ultimate Guide for Obsessives – WSJ https://t.co/LjpyGUdMrq

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Single Book Title Fails to Function as a Trademark, Says TTAB https://t.co/SqXOHeqv5l pic.twitter.com/2APXQwzOpp

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Plaintiff owns incontestable registrations for LATHER for products that lather. Defendant is introducing a LATHER product. The top image is from the complaint. The image below shows defendant’s product as part of a ‘travel set’ of toiletries. Context is important.

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Bizarre story. Genius (formerly Rap Genius) provides lyrics and facts about songs, under license from music publishers. After Google partnered with LyricFind to publish lyrics, search traffic to Genius’s versions of lyrics plummeted. According to the WSJ:

Genius first became suspicious about the source of Google’s lyrics in 2016, when a Genius software engineer …