Video of Stephen Colbert saying that the emperor and the emperor’s press corps have no clothes was stored on YouTube. When reports that C-Span had asked YouTube to pull the clip on copyright grounds, there were, among others, two reactions: (1) how can a government claim copyrights; and (2) did they do so to suppress
2006
Stoller Promotes Tuesday Night Blog Party In Toronto
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Posted in Miscellany
Seriously, here.
If You Know Where There’s Open WiFi In Toronto . .
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Posted in Miscellany
. . . near the conference, email me at marty at schwimmerlegal dot com and I will post the location.
WSJ: Can Lawyer’s Copy One Another’s Litigation Documents?
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Posted in Copyright
WSJ: Can Lawyers Copy One Another’s Litigation Documents?
Trademark Blog post from November 2002 on the issue here.
Double the Centigrade And Add Thirty
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Posted in Miscellany
Double the centigrade and add thirty in order to convert centigrade to farenheit.
One US dollar is worth approximately 1.10 Canadian, one Canadian dollar is worth approximately 90 cents.
Take a passport or birth certificate.
They speak English, but with an accent.
Your cell phone provider may treat all your calls as roaming, it depends
Pitch Me In Toronto
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Posted in Miscellany
Reminder: The Ale and Quail Club of Mid to-Upper-Westchester will be hosting its annual social at:
BeerBistro
18 King Street (at Yonge)
Toronto
Tuesday May 9 – 9:30 pm to Midnight
All constructive suggestions on how to improve the Trademark Blog will be cheerfully entertained. If you would like to meet with me in Toronto…
DONALD TRUMP v. IVANA TRUMP
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Posted in Surname
Via The Smoking Gun, we learn that The Donald is opposing his ex-wife Ivana’s trademark application for IVANA TRUMP. You’d have thought the divorce settlement would have envisioned this. HT Eric.
Possibly relevant Trademark Blog post from 2002 on the ‘sacred right to use one’s own name.’ There’s a typo in it that…
Backdoor or “Third Shift” Counterfeits
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Posted in Counterfeits
Video Illustrating Google Adword Abuse
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Posted in Search Engines
Video distributed in YouTube illustrating adword abuse (worth the 9 minutes).
WaPo Article on Google and Parked Domains
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Posted in Domain Names
Washington Post: The Web’s Million-Dollar Typos