Category Archives: Miscellany

Ralph Lauren ran a photo of a model that seems obviously re-touched (the photo, not the model). A website ran the photo in order to ridicule it. Ralph Lauren sent a DMCA letter to the site and another which reported on the photo. The website re-printed the photo and the DMCA letter. Sites like mine […]

This article says that New York City claims that it does. Meanwhile the operators of the predcessors of the now-bankrupt restauarnt are the title owner of incontestable registration no. 1154270 (good job of reporting there guys). I see why the City would want the name – they own the land and a future leasee would […]

Demand letter is to embarrassing information as high speed fan is to friable asbestos. Discuss, after reading this.

Go to the SPEZIFY search engine and type in any word.

For one thing, I’m posting more often to the TrademarkBlog Twitter account.

Chris Anderson wrote a book called Free. It discusses the downward pressure information technology exerts on content. Background here. The NY Times reviewed it and considered it sloppy, for a start. Malcolm Gladwell reviewed it in the New Yorker and criticized the whole thesis. Seth Godin disagreed with Gladwell, writing a post entitled “Malcolm is […]

From here.

Method and means for creating anti-gravity illusion Michael J. Jackson et al I’m serious. I thought I would distinguish myself by not mentioning Michael Jackson today, but then someone posted a link to patent 5,255,452 for “Method and means for creating anti-gravity illusions.” I’m told that this is (was) a real patent!

Are you a fantastic trademark paralegal in the NY area, with experience in domestic and international trademarks, as well as domain names? If you’re contemplating a move, please send a resume to mschwimmer (at symbol) mosessinger dot com. Note: if you are a recent law school grad, then this would not be a good opportunity […]

You only have a few more hours left to send me client alerts about the Facebook username thing.