I Will Be Part of a Panel on Fan Fiction and Mash-Ups At The Copyright Society Lunch in Manhattan This Wednesday
Trade Dress Suit re Lacrosse Helmets
Plaintiff (represented by friend of the blog John Welch) sues New Balance alleging infringement in trade dress of lacrosse helmet.
Complaint Sports Helmet
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS v PATIENTS WITHOUT BORDERS
Heart Attack Grill v Heart Stoppers for Burgers
Laughing in the face of death, Heart Attack Grill sues Heart Stoppers (both are burger restaurant) for infringing use of ‘high caloric food, medically themed’ burger. Both places offer quadruple burgers, have wait-staff wearing nurses uniforms, etc. Both places allow people over 350 to eat free. Heart Attack Grill seems to have only one location
Marilyn Monroe’s Ghost Spotted Drafting Legislation In Albany, New York?
Dead celebrities have lobbied NY state senators to introduce S06790, a bill to amend NY civil rights law to add a 70 year post-mortem right to prevent the use of the persona of a deceased personality. The ghost of Marilyn Monroe may have been among the lobbyists, because Section 12 of the bill seems to
My Huffington Post Column On The WHO DAT Dispute
Pryor Representation Doesn’t Create Conflict
Law Firm reprented Plaintiff in a prior trademark litigation. Plaintiff sues Defendant, one of Law Firm’s other clients, and Law Firm is retained to represent Defendant. Plaintiff moves to disqualify Law Firm arguing that either (1) Law Firm concurrently represents Plaintiff as a result of the prior litigation; or (2) this suit is substantially related
Unfettered By Knowledge, I Speak Freely on Fox Business Live
I’m still shuddering. I was supposed to appear on Fox Business Live (a streaming version of Fox Business) to discuss the IP aspects of Google’s dispute with China. Then this morphed into ‘the IP aspects of Secy of State Clinton’s Internet Freedom speech’ (which was a very good speech even though there was little to
The Person You Send A Demand Letter To May Know A Senator
Here is a post about the MONSTER v VERMONSTER trademark dispute, which dispute Senator Leahy denounced as ‘trademark bullying,’ when introducing the Trademark Technical and Conforming Amendment Act of 2010.