I will be presenting on ‘TheYear in Trademark Law’ and “IP Blogs,Websites and Technology” at the 2005 Midwest Intellectual Property Institute, sponsored by the Minnesota State Bar Association, September 27 and 28.  Other presenters include Copyright Office, Trademark Office and Customs Officials (and some disreputable IP bloggers).  Subjects on both contentious and prosecution issues…

Saul Bass, who designed title sequences for movies such as Vertigo and Psycho, also designed the ATT logo and the one shown here for FULLER PAINTS (a revised version is still in use by Fuller O’Brien, a successor in interest).

More on film titles here.

More on Saul Bass here.

Great website on illustration including many posts on commercial art: Drawn.ca.

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Two different issue in this NY Lawyer article: (1) Rightsholders in WHAT HAPPENS HERE, STAYS HERE is suing the owner of registrations for WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS, STAYS IN VEGAS; (2) The advertising agency that created the WHAT HAPPENS HERE slogan is the owner of the slogan and not the client, the…

More on the Wayback Machine/DMCA matter here via Discourse.net.

Australian decision re when linking to a site can constitute authorization of copyright infringement.  Note comment that press reports of this case are overstating linking liability.

ABA Roundtable on ‘The Future of Legal Blogging’ in which my fellow ‘Between Lawyers’ bloggers and I prognosticate.

Section 2(a) of the Lanham Act prohibits registrations of, among other things, material that brings people into contempt or disrepute. 

A women motorcyclist organization applied for trademark registration of DYKES ON BIKES (stating a date of first use of 1976).

The examining attorney issued a preliminary refusal stating:

. . . . the proposed mark consists

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