Via Legal Week: In the UK, which does not have a U.S.-style unified bar, this article discssues growing rights of trademark attorneys vis-a-vis solicitors.
OK, it’s barristers who wear horsehair wigs, not solicitors. You come up with a visual.
COOLWHITE Descriptive Of Gum In China
Via Xinhua: Wrigley loses protection of COOLWHITE on descriptiveness grounds in the PRC.
One Fewer Headache For The Shelby Coupe
We reported on a dispute regarding the Shelby Coupe and ran that cool photo (of an allegedly infringing coupe) in 2003. Now Shelby has announced a settlement with one of the entities that allegedly violate the trade dress of the famous Shelby Coupe.
And Now, A Word On Behalf Of Non-Disclosure Agreements
Via Sportsbusinessnews.com via Sports Law Blog: Season Tickets is suing Ticketmaster for breach of a non-disclosure agreement, alleging that Ticketmaster stole trade secret information while engaged in subsequently-aborted talks to buy the company.
On the one hand, another argument to get clients to get the NDA signed before they take the meeting. On the other hand, another
Doc Busted For Bootleg BOTOX
Fake BOTOX, via CNN.COM.
SpongeBob Gets Religion
The caption to this photo from the United Church of Christ reads:
SpongeBob meets with the Rev. John H. Thomas, the UCC’s general minister and president, in his office. Explains Thomas, “No matter who you are or where you are on life’s journey, SpongeBob, you’re welcome here.”
This one of series of photos illustrating SpongeBob’s
LEGO’s Clutching Power
What To Do When You Can’t Publish Nighttime Photos Of The Eiffel Tower
Fast Company reports that the company that maintains the Eiffel Tower holds a copyright in its nighttime lighting display, and thereby polices commercial use of (nighttime) photographs of the Tower (unlike the image of the Tower itself, the lighting display has not fallen into the public domain).
One photographer’s solution depicted here.
UPDATE: Great minds inspired
Biased Authorities: First Dan Rather, Now Nimmer Gets His
From the Abstract from Bartow, The Hegemony of Copyright Treatises, University of Cincinnati Law Review, Vol. 73, pp.1-64, Fall 2004
This Article asserts that major conceptions about the appropriate structure, texture, and span of copyright protections and privileges have been fashioned by copyright treatises, particularly the various editions of Nimmer on Copyright. Copyright treatises function
Warren Buffett On Life
Not Trademark Law but you will not be worse off for reading these notes from a meeting with Warren Buffett.